I know there isn’t an objectively correct answer to this question, and I’m not asking for the “party line” - I just want to hear everyone’s opinions (and the inevitable arguments had in good fun, of course).
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Plasma. Or at least it is for me, your opinion may differ.
Yeah same here, I’m a tinkerer so Plasma is perfect for me. No shade to anyone who uses GNOME or whatever else though, I like that we have options for everyone.
The one you build yourself around a WM
xfce, mate, lxde, tde, pick your choice
i prefer wms like fvwm/wmaker/blackbox/e16/ctwm tho
XFCE4 🐭🐭🐭
Cute rat, must boop lil rat nosie.
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GNOME
Objectively, with the question asked as it was; there isn’t one.
However, for my use case and preference, I’m gonna roll with KDE. KDE offers everything I need. It has an weasy to use task bar, a menu, tray icons for lingering apps and controls, its dark mode out of the box is good, it support hi refresh rate, even HDR if you want it it can be as simple or as complex as you want. I can stick with how it comes stock basically and rock and roll. The discover store is fine when needed but I use CLI to install and update most things.
I have tried GNOME,XFCE, Cinnamon, Hyprland, Cosmic, Mate, and more but none of them fit my workflow exactly how I see fit.
Your mileage may vary.
Not a popular opinion for Linux shillers, but I love GNOME. It’s quite simplified but does most what a normal person could want. And Gnome extensions can do basically anything a power use could want.
I think its main criticisms largely stem from saying it’s not very "Windows"y.
I like Plasma best, followed by Xfce and Cinnamon. I can’t stand Mate or Gnome.
tmux
That’s… not a DE.
idk… i think we can, at least, declare it a WM. tmux is quite possibly my favorite thing ever.
I use tmux for ssh sessions. Still have a DE on the main system, though. Running tmux with tmux would be wild.
That’s… a joke.
The best DE is the one you like the most
You are absolutely right.
Wow no one’s said emacs yet
clearly that is because emacs is an OS and not a DE…
Not to soud rude, but how is your “best DE” thread different from thousands of other “best DE” threads where everyone already gave their opinion? There’s plenty of “opinions” on “best DE” online.
I got stuck with COSMIC for now after someone made a thread on @libre@hexbear.net how COSMIC is bullying Gnome.
Not Gnome
Why?
