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My favourite DE has got to be Cinnamon, as much as I like KDE and XFCE, I prefer the simplicity of cinnamon where as in KDE has a bit too much of everything in the customization scene and XFCE I find a little tricky to get tiling working right.

Cinnamon to me is perfect as I easily transferred from Win 10 to Mint and soon Manjaro Cinnamon Edition.

What is your favourite DE and why? Tiling WM DE's can be counted as well seeing as they have nifty navigation features.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I've had this type of itch to keyboardize my workflow more. I learned about colemak keyboard mods, and started following the rabbit hole haha. Did you design your keyboard pcb too? or just wrote custom firmware?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Nah, didn't go that far (yet), just heavily edited a qmk_firmware configuration. So yeah, I'll admit I didn't exactly write my own keyboard firmware.

I have the soldering tools ready for when I have time to learn. Sadly I only have time for software lately, and hardware/firmware has had to take a back seat.

Customizing your workflow around the keyboard is a helluva drug though! If it weren't for Vim being configured for QWERTY out of the box, I'd probably configure a COLEMAK or DVORAK setup as well.

I'd encourage you to go as far down the rabbit hole as you're comfortable, the learning curve can slow you down initially, but the dividends pay off in the long run imho.

Here's a pic of my current setup. The keyboard is prebuilt (Voyager ZSA), just with custom firmware. Couple clamps keep it vertical for ergonomics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is definitely something

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Lol, yeah I know it's definitely not for everybody.

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