I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it’s Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)…etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.
Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the “Flagship Manjaro version”. I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.
After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.
What about you guys?
KDE plasma, unless it’s on a tablet, then Gnome
My computer doesn’t really break, I’m Ship of Theseus-ing it regularly.
Apart from that, the only one among the normal window based ones that has felt like it respects my will to configure stuff in ways that feel right to me has been KDE Plasma.
My current desktop is xmonad + xfce in no-desktop mode. Almost no configuration in xmonad, all the stuff like monitor layout and mouse props is handled by xfce. And yes my laptop that I used it on for 6-7 years is now broken (ish) so I’ve already unlocked this acheivement.
I do feel slightly guilty about not moving to wayland, but I’m not sure how that would improve my experience at all. I did hear xfce is almost there on wayland, so maybe I can move to sway + xfce on wayland at some point.
Plasma for the last decade. Then probably XFCE, then Cinnamon.
I try Gnome every year or so, but every time I get pissed off with it within a few minutes and wipe it off my machine.
Desktop environment? Who needs a desktop environment?
Bro watches videos through ASCII conversion in the cli😭
Bad apple in text may be more impressive than it on the Nintendo.
mpvfor the winbut if you really want your ASCII conversion:
mpv --vo=cacaormpv --vo=tctIt’s actually possible! Thats amazing lol
Bro doesn’t need DE to watch videos. Bro doesn’t need DE to do anything.
KDE Plasma, I can’t go back to SDR
Plasma, been using it since I was a kid
Plasma’s not that old, it just came out a few years ago…
2008?
K so I just realized they didn’t call it plasma until 2008, I first used KDE in 2005.
Probably either KDE or NsCDE, I always seem to come back to those
KDE. I’ve been using it as my daily driver for roughly 10 years now, and barring any unforeseen excitement, it’ll stay that way indefinitely. Proably until I stop using Linux, anyhow.
GNOME because it works out of the box like GNOME
KDE - I love to tinker and own my DE. 😎
LXQt or XFCE if I have to pick a DE. Fluxbox or openbox if I can get away with just a WM. ;)
I’d probably pick KDE. I use Gnome on almost every machine, but Gnome makes weird decisions, and I assume one day I won’t like one of them. KDE always seems to get better and add more options. I can make KDE work like practically any other DE, including Gnome.
KDE
LXQT or KDE I just like the QT look and feel.
GNOME is great in general but not for me, it is too much MacOS alike and too limited for my liking.
