Bottom left is Awesome WM. Ask me anything or tell us your picks!
(and feel free to tear me apart on my picks)
Longest-used: XFCE, by far. Current: Wayfire + Noctalia 5.
I’m still an user of XFCE4. It just works.
Edit: Wrong DE name.
huh. I’ve never heard of that one.
Oh, sorry, it’s XFCE4. I wrote it on my phone and gthe finger pressed the wrong letter.
First: Gnome Favorite: Gnome Longest Used: Gnome Least Favorite: KDE Current: Gnome Future: Gnome
Used Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE in the past. Bucking the trend, I think Gnome is fine and does what I need it to do. You do you, though. That’s what is great about Linux.
Favorite: Cinnamon.
Honorable Mention: KDE.
Least Favorite: Gnome.
First: Gnome.
Current: Cinnamon.
Longest Used: KDE.
Future: CinnamonCosmic is actually usable now? I thought it was still missing some pretty major features.
Cosmic Files is glitchy as hell, but otherwise it’s great!
I haven’t encountered any missing features in the last few weeks. The dev team is working very quickly it seems.
Mostly, it still has a few rough edges imo. Less than I’d have expected at this stage though.
Niri + dank material shell over here. I absolutely love the infinite horizontal desktop
Niri is interesting, but made my mouse go crazy.
- Favourite: GNOME
- Honourable Mention: Stable Hybrid Release (SHR) for OpenMoko
- Least Favourite: dwm
- First: twm or maybe fvwm95 on Slackware 96
- Current: GNOME
- Longest Used: GNOME
- Future: GNOME
In the 1990s I also used IceWM and Enlightenment. My first DE was KDE, but I have been using GNOME pretty consistently for twenty years.
I don’t think I can really fit my opinions neatly into these categories. I tend to lean toward Gnome because it does what I need it to do, seems to have the fewest problems and annoyances, while still being fully featured.
I really want to like KDE Plasma, and have been using it more, but it still has a number of things that bug me. Some programs run inexplicably slow on it. It goes a little overboard with notifications and popups. Like do I really need to approve my game controllers almost any time I plug them in?
On the other hand, it really is fully featured, and I love the KDE Connect integration.
Haven’t used anything else in years, cause I always find other des/wms to just be a little too short on features. Did used to like XFCE a lot though.
Sway all the way bay bay
I use Linux btw
Favorite: KDE.
Least Favorite: Gnome, but I’ve not tried a ton… It’s slick but way too opinionated for my tastes. I could change most of what bothers me about it with add-ons and mods, but KDE gives me the controls I want out of the box, and lets you do damned near anything you want before you even start installing mods (I don’t understand the person who thinks it’s too limited and Gnome is more flexible, but different priorities, I guess)
First DE: KDE on XanderOS… To be fair, the name sounded cool to young me and I didn’t know much of anything about the different Linux distros yet. And I think Ubuntu either wasn’t around yet or hadn’t gotten well enough known for me to have spotted it initially
Honorable Mention: Unity… Love it or hate it, Ubuntu was trying something actually interesting and I think it’s a shame they didn’t stick with it longer
Current DE: KDE
Potential Future DE: not sure, KDE does everything I want at this time, but I might give Cosmic a try, and/or a tiling WM, though I suspect I won’t care for it (I’ll give it a real shot to convince me, I just don’t see the appeal)
Longest used DE: KDE
Current distro: Mint with KDE shoehorned in, though will be OpenSuSE Tumbleweed in a couple hours (I love Mint but I’m tired of fighting with old packages and drivers, and suspect that might be the cause of graphics stack crashes that have plagued me… Also because I’m tired of waiting for KDE 6 for years now and it’ll be probably mid next year still before it’s available on Mint, and even then still only as an afterthought)
I’m a Unity denier since childbirth. In hindsight it feels like Apple lite.
POP! Os pulls it off pretty well I think.
Favourite DE & Current DE: GNOME. Simply the only one with a consistent and modern design.
Least Favourite: cosmic. This needs a lot more polish before I consider it anywhere close to an actual option. Currently it looks childish to me.
First DE used: Unity. It’s been a long, long time.
DE you wanna use in the future: None. I’m done DE hopping, no DE can deliver the level of consistency and polish that GNOME can deliver anymore.
Longest used DE: Pantheon. On elementary OS. Gnome took a long time to get its shit together, but at least it did.
Honourable Mention: KDE. It’s… Meh. It fixed some things consistency-wise, but it’s still stuck in the past when it comes to UI paradigms. It claims customisability, it’s only customisable in ways that barely matter anymore and can only break consistency. Insane workload on the app devs and the theme devs to have something working reliably as well.
have you used Cosmic recently? It sounds like everyone has outdated opinions on it. I’ve been using it for months and I would say it’s long ready for daily use.
You really sound to me like a typical Gnome snob ngl
Gnome snob!
My goodness man have you no decency?!
Good Sire, I must apologize profusely for my own unrecognized shortcomings! I now long see the error of my past self and realize I must remedy it. My deepest apologies, good sir.
All of the boxes are KDE, except
Least favorite: GNOME
Current distro: Garuda
Gnome with extensions is basically a better cosmic for me
The thing I love about cosmic is the themeing and customization, but most of all the native tiling mode.
Can you really get a good tiling mode on Gnome?
Im assuming you haven’t checked, there are multiple extension options, just look up gnome tiling, I like it
Default gnome is rough, but arcmenu for customizable start menu, and a couple other extensions that ive never had issues with being outdated make it the best de for me, kde I end up adding too much clutter or never feel satisfied customizing compared to gnomes default look
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What’s that raindrop one in the middle?
Hyperland, a wayland based tiling wm
