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KDE. I used to use Gnome but switched over to KDE a few years ago.
GNOME. I love the ecosystem of apps and the great design and simplicity, even if I sacrifice customization and features.
GNOME is designers trying to develop a DE
KDE is developers trying to design a DE.
I like to say that GNOME is a consumer DE, while KDE is a hobbyist DE. I let my wife use GNOME cause of simplicity, but I use KDE Plasma for my desktops.
Lack of customization is a feature for me. I waste too much time fiddling with configuration otherwise trying to get everything set up how I want. Gnome is ready to go out of the box.
KDE Plasma
had to scroll way too much...
Kde
Gnome without extensions. It gets out of the way and let's me work. Whenever I have to use something else, it feels like going backwards in time. I used to love tinkering with my system and tried a lot of DE's back in the days. Don't have the time for that anymore.
I did have to adjust though. I think that a lot of the hate gnome gets is because of this. If you espect it to work like a traditional desktop you're going to get frustrated and install too many extensions to make it like one. My advise would be to set aside your presumptions and try it like it's meant to be used. You might be surprised, I know I was...
A while ago I found this video, which explains it in more detail.
I love how minimal and clean Gnome is, I use couple extensions like Blur My Shell, User Themes and couple to show temps and wireless mouse battery. And the search is fast and definitely the best way to open apps or files
Sway and I love it. A bit of a hassle to configure but once it's set up how I like it's then it's great! I tried hyprland for a bit and it was super shiny but I just haven't had the time to tweak.
Qtile. Full DEs are for rich people.
Qtile is great, finally put an end to my WM hopping (at least until I try out Wayland maybe)
For a while I used tiling window managers, no DE really, but for the past year or so Iβve been using KDE and really enjoying it again.
KDE, but sometimes I use i3 on my laptop
MATE:
I like traditional desktops.
I absolutely love MATE for that exact reason.
GNOME 44 with a couple extensions. I'm a big fan of its general look and feel
KDE, but it doesn't super look like it anymore.
Cinnamon for a few years now.
GNOME is perfect for me, 100% vanilla, I don't even have Tweaks installed.
TDE aka Trinity Desktop Environment, a fork of KDE 3.
How is it? I've often thought about trying it out. I'm on Plasma 5, but I've never loved Plasma like I loved KDE 3.6. I felt like KDE 4 was a huge regression and didn't recover for years. Still hasn't, really.
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GNOME. It doesn't let customization get in the way of me using it, but everything I actually need to change has an extension to do that, even on my Surface.
Qtile but that's just a WM
Using Plasma currently.
Cinnamon on Manjaro.
Yes, I know using Manjaro is cheating, but I could not be arsed to set up a DE by hand for the upteenth time. Manjaro Cinnamon ISO go *brrrrrrrr*
XFCE. I love how lightweight it is.
I used GNOME but a bunch of angry Linux fanboys told me my worth as a human was nonexistent since I didnβt have XFCE installed so I installed Mac OSX instead. Loving clippy rn.
Gnome. It just seems simple, elegant and smooth. It does what I need from a DE (not that much, I do a lot in terminal and Emacs). It has good keybindings out of the box and good virtual desktop mechanisms. It was also the first DE with good Wayland support. At first I was unsure if I liked Gnomeβs concept and restrictions, but Iβve grown to like it fast.
Gnome + ArcMenu + Dash to Panel = <3
Exact same setup! No matter how much I rice, swap DEs, or distro hop, I always come back to this setup. It's just the most polished experience out there.
Oh also a tray icon extension on top of that.
i3
XFCE on my work machine, GNOME on PC and KDE on my notebook. I wish DEs would play together better, so I could DE hop on one machine, but one can dream
Fedora Silverblue here so, Gnome
Sway for going on 2 years I think. I do recommend it, and Wayland/tiling wms in general.
I use my own fork that uses bspwm-style "long-side split by default," and a nearly transparent under-the-hood container-squashing refactor that prevents this behavior from causing the tree to become bloated with invisible nodes and start to lag horribly. The fix won't be accepted in Sway since it's the bug is faithfully reproduced from i3, and I haven't had time to rewrite it for i3. But if you use something like sway-autotiling, you've probably noticed the issue.
XFCE usually. Two years ago it didn't support my weird multi monitor configuration, so I still have one computer with Gnome.
Cinnamon almost exclusively. But sometimes plasma.
I use gnome and plasma. Recently more plasma than gnome but I switch between them when there are new versions to explore. :)
I'm running i3 and it's ruined my ability to use Windows or Mac PCs
Absolutely same here, though it's also ruined my ability to use gnome or KDE or really anything else too..
I switch back and forth between Gnome, XFCE, and herbstluftwm - there's something about the mental model that works for me.
I've probably spent the most time over the years in openbox. Sometimes lxde. Right now flirting with MATE and I don't hate it.
dwl (a wayland compositor inspired by dwm)
Wayland is better than xorg, change my mind
Mate & kde
Recently switched to hyprland from sway.
I'm usually an XFCE guy but I'm giving Cinnamon a whirl at the moment
Hyprland when felling tiled, Plasma or Cinnamon when I want some floating
Gnome or Sway - it depends on the device and my mood.
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