Linux

sway + bemenu for building my own utilities

btw what distro are my fellow sway users on? i'm loving the control i get over what i install with gentoo

how is everyone interacting with audio, networking, bluetooth?

River, not a DE but close enough. I could configure it in fennel without much problem.

Budgie is cool

I have a hard time recommending it, but I ran Deepin on Arch a few years and was blown away by it. There were some weird limitations to how much you can customize, and I prefer window managers in general, so I eventually stopped using it. But that was the best time I had with a DE in Linux overall.

The best I can actually recommend is KDE.

BSPWM and Polybar because I am too lazy to figure out eww and I use KDE as a backup in case anything breaks lol

KDE + bismuth

Kde for the win!

I keep wanting to try out vanillaOS and everytime I liveboot it, I immediately regret my decision. I cannot stand Gnome.
I love KDE, I love it for how versatile, intuitive and customizable it is.
Bot to mention, I rarely experience any bugs. It just works.

I don't have a favorite. I use Cinnamon because it disappoints me the least.

SwayFX (Sway with a bit more eye candy effects)

@fugepe Gnome

Cinnamon. Stupidly simple and elegant looking.

I'm not huge into customising desktop environments, so when I've tried window managers like i3, I typically only get it functional to my likings and then realise how boring I am compared to how others use it.

So typically I use gnome or kde, but I like cinnamon and xfce as well. I don't really have a favourite, they're all good. At the minute I am trying to adopt wayland and have been using gnome while I do that.

KDE for my main and XFCE for my lower powered systems or VM's

Enlightenment

For me efficiency and less eye strain is important. I want my eyes to be at the center of the screen for the majority of my session. Gnome is my goto for that reason but any tiling windows manager would do as welll.

KDE and the windows start bar lookalikes constantly have your eyes going to the corner or sides to open and find apps.

I usually use WindowMaker or FVWM but as a desktop environment... CDE

@fugepe I use a mostly vanilla Gnome, with the exception of the Blur My Shell and Vitals extensions

I personally like Mate, especially with i3 as the window manager.

XFCE, while it doesn't have all the fancy animations and such it is incredibly customizable while still being super light weight.

sway is pretty good. Doesn't give me much troubles compared to hyprland (which I also like)

Boring old X11 Gnome for me, it looks pretty, it's reliable and it has all the stuff I'd expect out of a desktop environment

Wayland doesn't play nice with my GPU and I've heard it's not great for gaming anyway

i3 on my laptop, gnome on my gaming rig (cuz wayland)

A while back I was into KDE Plasma but for whatever reason had this bug that would cause my system to run at 100 percent at all times. When I looked into it, many stated it was a bug that related to how kde searches for stuff on the system. Dont remember much else but that had me look elsewhere.

Been on gnome for awhile now and havent had any issues.

Xfce on work desktop, gnome works well with gestures at home on my laptop. Will be changing to kde when I get a new machine at work!

TDE (for those who haven't encountered it before, the Trinity Desktop Environment forked from KDE3 more than a decade ago). It might not be the flashiest or the newest, but it has a decent selection of features and applications, and presents a traditional desktop environment whose interface doesn't get changed for the sake of change. In other words, it stays out of the way and lets me get things done.

(If I'd liked Gnome 2 better than KDE 3 rather than vice-versa, I probably would have gone for MATE instead.)

I like the default look of Gnome but I prefer kde because it's easier to change and tweak stuff.

KDE if I have performance to spare. XFCE if I am running this in a container on my phone.