For me its KDE.
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.I’m fine in general with most of them but I’m settled on KDE. I agree the software is great, I love apps like Okular and there are these little goodies hidden everywhere, like typing “fish://user@server” in the file manager url/path area and I get a folder open of the remote file system, I can even add it to “Locations”.
KDE Plasma 5.27 is incredible. Such a stable and customizable experience! 😍
XFCE, tried cinnamon a couple times it was okay but I just prefer the simplicity and stability of xfce
GNOME, for sure. It works out of the box, and it’s kind of pretty out of the box.
I also tried it on a touch screen PX and it works surprisingly well.
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.
to be fair okular does have a k in it
I like Gnome the best too. In my experience, it’s the desktop environment that focuses the most on making sure that no little bugs slip in. Like normally when you’re using a desktop environment, it will be good except for a few bugs here and there where you have to remember weird things like not backing out of the settings menu in a certain way in order to not trigger a bug. Gnome seems to have the least amount of weird little bugs like that.
It’s not very configurable out of the box, but I prefer that too. I’m getting a bit old and set in my ways, and don’t really want to mess around with too much configuration anymore.
Both take great benefits from the improvements of the other.
KDE has a lot of customization and plenty of neat features, but it suffers a death of a thousand papercuts. There’s just so many small “non-severe” issues that adds up to making it end up feeling clunky and unpolished compared to GNOME’s general polish.
I’m in the same boat. I use mostly stock gnome to avoid experiencing bugs. I used KDE for a bit and loved it but never really loved how many options the settings gave me. I would also constantly run into issues with the docks disappearing when unplugging monitors. In contrast docks on gnome just work. I really only use the Ubuntu dock extension on gnome
KDE. Because it’s mostly a complete package and has tons of knobs and dials to tune for anyone’s needs edited
Not even mentioning the DE, what a Chad move
I meant KDE. Was replying to OP
They might be referencing the fact that technically the DE’s name is Plasma, not KDE.
xfce for a very long time. I really like tiling WMs but always come back to xfce
KDE is love, KDE is life
Love me some Cinnamon. Specifically what comes out of default Linux Mint. It isn’t trying to do more than it already is. As cool as tech is I wish I didn’t need to care about Wayland or X11. I just want it to launch applications, feel like the windows I used as a kid, and stay out of my way. Cinnamon does this all for me. And since freaking high school mint has been there trying to do that.
I use KDE now, but Cinnamon was my first and made the transition beautiful. It’s a great DE.
Gotta be KDE for a full featured DE.
But using Sway for now.
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.
Absolutely KDE Plasma.
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.
i3. I mean, it’s fast, customizable, and you can make it look good. That’s all i need.
Mine is MATE:
It’s still GNOME 2, but I see no problem with that, it works and I’m used to it and I like traditional desktops. I don’t need (or care about) round borders or those on/off switches of modern desktops, that make them look like phone screens turned 90°.
Nice, impressive.
Please share that wallpaper, looks awesome!
If you want, I also got a Makima (character from the same series, Chainsaw Man) wallpaper roughly in the same style:
Thank you so much!
I’ve been using Cinnamon for years. It’s stable, fairly lightweight, and pleasing to the eye.