My personal favorites in order from most to least favorite:
- XFCE
- KDE
- Hyprland
- Cinnamon
- i3
- CDE
- LXQt
- Deepin
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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My DE choices:
- KDE Plasma -- It's pretty, it's customizable. Workflow is customizable
- XFCE -- Honestly I consider XFCE to be like Plasma's sibling, in that its workflow is also very customizable and there is a lot of space for theming, but is lighter and acts nicer on weaker hardware
I tried Gnome and I just hate it? It needs a lot of fennagling to look and act in a way I find enjoyable. Cinnamon is eeeeeeeeehhhhh.
WM-wise, I played with Hyprland and I3WM, but tiling WMs aren't for me. They just aren't. For what convenience I gained from being able to use Super+something to do basically everything, I don't enjoy the workflow.
I also used Wayfire for a bit -- Writing my own configuration file and customizing everything IS fun, but like.... Nah?
Maybe because I used windows first and not Mac, but KDE. Gnome is just opensource Mac DE/WM with the same mentality "we know what's best for you and you'll like it".
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Gnome on my desktop, LXQt on my laptop.
Gnome, hands now. Before coming to Linux, I was an Apple user. I was a fan of their design philosophy - minimalism, clarity and simplicity. Well, I can't tolerate Apple as an enterprise, and there are also a lot of very weird design desicions which I discovered while using their devives - but the core principle is something I stand by. Gnome in my opinion is exactly that - KISS, and all the options are really polished.
I've tried KDE as well, and have a lot of respect for the developers of it. But after using it for a few days, there are just a lot of inconsistencies in the KDE applications which don't make sense to me.
Gnome for the win!!!!!!!1!1!1!1!1!
I'll be switching to COSMIC DE as soon as it gets into the beta phase.
If you asked source, it's "God gave me this awkward superpower, what is it for?'
If you asked sauce, idk
XFCE with OpenSuse style is my favorite. Low resource usage, windows-easy ability to put shortcuts all over the desktop (fuck you, Unity), searchbox that just works. I don't need to spend hours or months customizing the setup for it to work as I want.
GNOME. Also, trying to use as many apps as possible that follows its guidelines.
cosmic
Good job in fitting the personalities of the DE to the girl.
I currently use Plasma 6 on both my laptop and my desktop, but XFCE has a special place in my heart, due to it being right in the middle between being lightweight with resources and still staying usable for a buffoon like me.
cinnamon.appimage
I miss my E17 and windowmaker, when I had the time to fiddle with config files...
I switched to Niri recently, and find it much better than most of the wlroot tiling options.
From unity to gnome for Wayland support from gnome to KDE because of painful stutterstthough now I use both on wayland, just dep3nding on which syst3m I'm on at th3 time.
Great DEs over all, though in excited to try outt cosmic once I get past some systems projects :)