What is best Desktop Environment?

this fucking thread.

where the fuck do the paid trolls end and the butthurt neckboards begin?

i use mate but only to connect to wifi because i cant figure out how to connect to wifi on i3wm

it doesnt have apps, it follows the unix philosophy of doing one thing well, an app has to do a million things sandboxed in full screen like a video game. where lignux excels is an enormous wealth of community made scripts for modifying workflow things. you can find thousands of i3wm scripts yet you'd struggle to find more than a thousand skyrim mods.

if youre willing to do some research a lignux setup is the ultimate rice.

gahnome 3 is so fucking clunky. im glad ubuntu dropped it even though back then it was either kde or gahnome.

Let me fix this for you then

ip addr
gets you your network interfaces

iwlist scan
scans for networks manually

wpa_passphrase yourpasswordhere > /path/to/config/network.conf

wpa_supplicant -B -i networkinterface -c /path/to/config/network.conf
-B makes it a background process -i says this is the network interface -c tells it where the configuration file is

dhcpcd
this gives you an ip, if in the states it's usually an ipv4

If connecting to public wifi (hotel university) you have a bit more configuring to do for it especially if its microcock based but it generally amounts to something like this

network={
ssid="network"
key_mgmt="what ever the iwlist scan said"
pairwise=varies cross reference iwlist scan
group=varies cross reference iwlist scan
eap=PEAP for microcuck
identity="your name"
password="wpa_passphrase wrote this"
#psk="wpa_passphrase will rewrite this in gibberish"
psk=42342342349sdfjscd34902somethingpuke
phase2="authMSCHAPV2"
}

bash: iwlist: command not found

after using ip addr what do i copy from the results to use next to iwlist?

MATE cause you get a pacman screensaver

Boy, I have bad news for you...

On my main system I prefer to use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with shipped KDE Plasma. On my ThinkPad I do use gnome. KDE in my opinion is the most functional Desktop Enviroment, gnome just have it's on charme which addicts me to it.

well I'd say make sure iwlist is installed, but do a check for net tools you have so here's some basic ones.
sudo apt-get(assuming ubuntu system) install iw
sudo apt-get install wpa_supplicant
sudo apt-get install net_tools(probably not needed but this is generally used for older configurations)

you use ip addr to get your wireless interface card, should look something like
wlp1s0
wlan0

You only care about the thing that starts with a w.
ip addr gives you your wireless interface you'll use in the wpa_supplicant command.

iwlist gives you a bunch of network specifications so that you can properly configure your configuration that will be used in connecting to the network.