Yessss. Took me a few tries throughout the day but I successfully installed arch linux on my laptop :D Any good desktop environment recommendations?

KDE (some minor glitches, but feature-packed and not fugly out of the box)

Care to share your laptop specs?

@Devnergy nothing impressive, but good enough xD

CPU: Intel Pentium Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16Ghz
GPU: Intel Graphics 4500M with 128-830Mb
Memory: 4Gb DDR2 pc6400
HDD: Hitachi sata3g 320Gb @ 7200rpm
Includes: wireless, optical drive, rest of the basics.

I3 + dvorak programmer + nvim! 😈

More seriously: xfce is kinda nice and lightweight, gnome and kde are quite cool, but they are heavy

For the shell: I’d suggest zsh with oh-my-zsh (the aur package seems to be broken, so use the simple manual instructions on the github’s readme)
Personal recommendation for oh my zsh theme: af-magic

@xzvf @7fu12 How is Deepin by now? I've tried it a couple of months ago (V 14 or 15) and it was just horribly sluggish and you only had three workspaces. Besides the side-menu settings are weird as fuck

gnome3

Well since you installed Arch; I3(-gaps)

Openbox, no DE or DM. Just use startx every time.

UPDATE: decided to start with gnome3 :) might try some others down the road. Thanks for the suggestions!

Arch meme

@konicm8ker look for Antergos os. It's basically Archlinux but with easier installation process and it's easy to setup graphical environment 😉

i3gaps or awesome.

Install arch
Repeat

@sak96 congrats, you are trapped a recursion! congrats, you are trapped ...

@your-deadline but that's easy. Do it the Arch way >:)

i am so close to finally going the archway too ... need more of those rants to make this real :p

I3-wm. Once you get the hang of it you will never go back. I promise.

I prefer XFCE

https://youtu.be/GR2y0xOIIdI

@c3ypt1c yeah I know it's fun but I had a problem with setting GUI and it got me mad 😒

@your-deadline what problem did you have?

@your-deadline so something like this happened?

@c3ypt1c nah the problem was GUI itself. When I tried to run gnome service it simply didn't work as it should be. I don't know what was the problem but I fixed it with Antergos 😅😅

@your-deadline fair enough. Personally, i use i3 as my window manager. Its a lot more light weight :)