Vanilla Gnome. It's simple/boring, and I like that. It seems like most people that like Gnome don't care that it's not a poweruser DE, and aren't excited to talk about it either.
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I use gnome, but it's basically the worst DE, except all of the other ones that have been tried
It has the least features, so by default the least bugs.
For aesthetics: Budgie, with Cinnamon a close second For simplicity and speed: XFCE
Cinnamon. Stupidly simple and elegant looking.
I avoided GNOME3 for the longest time, but I decided to try it on a new install of Debian on a whim and actually ended up really liking it. Needed to enable a couple of extensions, but once you get used to it the workflow isn't at all that bad.
Gnome with pop_os tiling window manager
KDE
Kde because it has a really useful and functional out of the box tools, being dolphin and connect the most useful ones for me.
Never had an issue since last year, but yeah, was buggy as hell.
Mate if I want more juice from a not so good pc, and xfce for the low end ones.
KDE sets a really high bar with all the packages and extensibility. Almost everything (not including the lesser known and used packages) is feature-packed and just works. I really don't know any other software that constantly amazes me like KDE.
KDE Plasma 5.27 is incredible. Such a stable and customizable experience! 😍
xfce for a very long time. I really like tiling WMs but always come back to xfce
Xfce, i just like it.
XFCE, while it doesn't have all the fancy animations and such it is incredibly customizable while still being super light weight.
Seems like I'm the outlier here that prefers Gnome over KDE. Gnome feels more polished than KDE for me. Granted KDE comes with more features out of the box, but I don't find anything lacking in Gnome for me.
Tried KDE long time ago to compare it to Gnome 3, went back to Gnome. Tried KDE again a few months ago to compare to Gnome 42, came back to Gnome again.
I also can't stand having all my programs' name starting with K.
I also can't stand having all my programs' name starting with K.
Like Okular, Spectacle, Dolphin, .....
Maybe I shouldn't have said all, but it's annoying to me when the they put a "k" in the name in a very awkward way just because it's an KDE app.
XFCE, tried cinnamon a couple times it was okay but I just prefer the simplicity and stability of xfce
KDE is love, KDE is life
Default GNOME (Wayland), it just works
GNOME, with a little bit of extension customisability!
Budgie is cool
I usually use WindowMaker or FVWM but as a desktop environment... CDE
I am enjoying GNOME at the moment. But I think I may switch to Cosmic DE when that gets released.
Pop! _OS's Cosmic Version of GNOME (regular GNOME kinda stinks) but KDE is also pretty great. Can't wait for COSMIC DE. I'm sure that one will rock itself up to the number 1 spot really quickly.
Debian/KDE
KDE Plasma on desktop
Cinnamon on (older lower spec) laptop
BSPWM and Polybar because I am too lazy to figure out eww and I use KDE as a backup in case anything breaks lol
dwm, I got too much used to "it just works" and never ever breaks afrer an update.
Sway or GNOME (Wayland) with Pop shell extension.
I like Gnome with Pop OS's tiling
Hyprland + bemenu. Minimalistic, very little overhead, but still a pretty boi.
i3 counts, right? I have always been a keyboard oriented user and a big part of what drove me from Windows is them breaking or changing the hotkeys I used regularly. To me it is the perfect "you have control, this is your device, it works and looks how you want." wm
Absolutely KDE Plasma.
Xfce, didn't try KDE yet, using gnome currently.
It's between XFCE for it's simplicity and KDE for it's Wayland support for me
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