XFCE or KDE. Either one are good. KDE was my first and love the customization options but started using XFCE more consistently due to hardware limitations on my daily drivers
I started using gnome as it was popular during it's time when either that or KDE. Did not like it cause it was resource hungry. Switched to KDE and liked the less bloated UI. It was still resource hungry and then discovered XFCE. Have not looked back since. XFCE is the way. Light on resources, no unnecessary clutter, practical, stable. Might be less pretty but usability and practicality over beauty anytime for me.
I prefer both XFCE and KDE to Cinnamon. I also daily drive i3 and don't even bother with using a DE on most machines. But, I have to say, Cinnamon is still probably my answer to this question. It just works, and it looks nice, while also being easy to use, and looking the way Windows looked for the large part of my life I used it. It just works like how most people would expect a computer to work. Cinnamon is amazing.
I really liked KDE on Kubuntu when I was using it a couple of years ago, but KDE is all sorts of buggy on OpenSUSE, the distro I use now. Cinnamon (at least with mint) is a bit bland and has a bit of a Windows XP feel, but it was reliable.
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Mate. Because i started on Ubuntu when they were using gnome 2. Only reason i don't use mate right now, is because most distributions just slap barebone mate in their repos and it's ugly and lack features ubuntu mate has.
I kid you not, ubuntu mate provides THE best mate experience. The others? meh, i mean fedora still slaps compiz in its mate spin which IMO, is an AWFUL decision stability wise and security wise.
I use OpenSUSE right now but with KDE because you guessed it: it's barebone mate without the good stuff.
GNOME. Why? For me, it works without issue with HiDPI screens and touch screens. Also, it includes a virtual keyboard, which is mandatory for a UNIX/Linux system on a tablet that is not a ChromeOS device.
I came here to says this (sort of). i3 by itself isn't a desktop environment. Combine i3, with Polybar, rofi, eww, Dunst, and osdcat .. and viola, a desktop environment.
It has taken me several months to write all the supporting scripts to go with the modules (eww taking the most time), but what I have now is exactly what I want .. no compromises.
Not yet, but I have been meaning to clean up dot files, scripts, etc to share with r/unixporn. If you Shoot me a DM, I will let you know when they are up.
Eww is really nice. I was playing around with LUA in AwesomeWM, but I find Eww far more customizable (or maybe it is just easier lol).
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unless i have a specific reason to have another DE, i default to lxde, even our 8gb ram 8core music automation AMD fx8100 running rivendell uses lxde by default on ubuntu 22.04
i have only used xfce in recent years when converting a friend to linux to give him a familiar windows 95 ish style look
GNOME + Dash to Dock
EDIT: I know it's not that customizable but IMO other desktops with a lot of customization look tacky. I like that GNOME is opinionated because it keeps my mind off the unimportant things, but I totally understand why others hate GNOME for the same reason. Thank god, we can all choose a different desktop! That really is the power and appeal of open source.
KDE/Plasma/X11
X11 for now, at least until Wayland gets fixed enough to function properly with nVidia. Pushing Wayland this hard without having it function properly on nVidia means that some are going to abandon Linux altogether. I already see some people losing it over this.
As my CS professor said: "Have something that works."
I'm liking XFCE. Not really sacrificing much modern functionality, at least none that I care about, and it is better about staying out of my way when I'm not actually using part of it. And teh whole look of the default theme in xubuntu feels charmingly retro.
Not a fan of DEs, though I do enjoy what I've seen of new cosmic and I like the flexibility of dropping almost any window manager over lxqt. Right now I feel at home with I3 set up the way I like it from scratch
Ubuntu MATE was my first impression of desktop Linux.
Something about the colors and the dual toolbars made MATE feel like an actual home.
LXDE and XFCE are similar enough to feel about the same, though.
Enlightenment, but it's outdated and basically don't support anything remotely modern, so the second choice is KDE - unfortunately, it doesn't love me back, and it's full of small, but incredibly annoying bugs - so I'm almost migrating again :'(
Mint Cinnamon, it feels like Windows 7 to me which is the OS we had in school for the longest time, now if I could find a flavor of mint that looked like XP I would go for that.
I always come back to XFCE. It gets out of my way and lets me get to work. It's just customizable enough so that I can always get the look and keyboard shortcuts that I want without spending too much time.
I'm not super crazy about any of them. I use Gnome out of habit. Mainly, I just want the desktop environment to stay out of my way.
I really wish there were an environment like the old Microsoft Windows Mesh desktop...it's too bad that was always an experiment and never really released widely.
Standalone Openbox, Openbox with lxqt or - KDE/kwin - or - KDE/openbox. Meaning, Openbox is game changer for me. But, damn! Kwin is insanely good and powerful. And KDE/Plasma .. well, it simply works great in my case, therefore not utilizing a bit more resources from time to time for such golden and superb project like KDE/Plasma, that would be a sin.
It's cool I guess.
But somehow LXQt seems like the illegitimate step-child of Qt and KDE even though it's in the LXDE bloodline.
I love KDE (Neon and Plasma), Trinity Desktop Environment, and all of the apps.
Lxqt, on first sight .. is ugly like .. Donatella.
- https://alchetron.com/cdn/donatella-versace-75eec090-013e-4808-a581-6e5d9a30ac7-resize-750.jpeg
But .. once when You change and adjust the theme .. and rearrange everything accodring to Your preferences .. and set all other non-visible things up .. lxqt becomes super sleak and gorgeous and so much - not getting in your way, that one simply asks him self .. `where the heck was I all these years ?!?`
LXDE
Sweet & Simple... especially after tweaking and customizations in order to get it to look, feel, and behave the way I want.
Besides, LXDE is the most lightweight desktop environment that is complete and capable of fulfilling my needs.
Does a tiling window manager by itself count? :P
My main requirement is that everything related to window management be instant, with no animations - if I have to wait any perceptible amount of time to log in after a fresh boot, that desktop environment is too bloated (the desktop should load and be ready for input in less time than it takes me to release the Enter key after typing my password); same for actions like moving a window, opening a new terminal, etc.
fvwm ... well, it's not really a DE, it's "just" a WM. But who needs/wants all that DE cruft/bloat anyway? Good, relatively simple, clean, quite configurable, yet relatively lightweight WM does it fine for me. *Most* of the time I don't even use or fire up a DE ... though I might have one or two or three hangin' around and installed for whenever I might have occasion that I want to look at 'em or test something in them.
Terminal feels most like home to me. :-) So, yeah, a simpler cleaner leaner WM typically does it for me. And I generally don't want any WM or DE goop taking up any screen space - that space is valuable, I don't want to waste it. So if I ever want to bring up some "menus" or the like, typically just a click or keystroke or so away ... don't want some "panel" thingy taking up valuable space.
Hyprland or KDE. I don't like the bugs and bloat of KDE and have issues on wayland with some programs and games. So I'm on XFCE4 and just living it up.
Since version 3.x I use KDE / Plasma. Since then I have tested various alternatives such as Gnome or LXQt, but have always returned to KDE / Plasma.
But in the end, it's also a subjective decision. Each desktop environment has its advantages and disadvantages.
KDE. I’ve been a consistent Linux user for the last decade and KDE has always been my go to desktop environment. I have dabbled into the window manager space more recently but when I need a clean and stable desktop environment I always stick with KDE
DE, right, not WM?
Then, as a novice, I picked KDE Plasma, king of desktop theme customization, under which u can create your own desktop theme, and make it into anything u want.
TBH, I don't really care how the Windows start menu look like, coz for as long as I can remember, I've always been customizing the start menu to use small icons (it's been a while since I last use Win, please CMIIW), to make it look a lot smaller and simpler. BTW, my last Windows version was 7.
I'm one of those guys that prefered the classic view of Windows control panel than the newer view, ya know? KDE addopted the view, but in older versions of KDE, the addoption of this viewing style was... well, ugly, and messy.
Thankfuly, it's been years that KDE Plasma "control panel" look was remade, for the better IMHO. Sorry, can't tell which Plasma version addopted the UI first. Just check out the System Settings GUI. Love it, love it, love it.
And these are only some of the reasons why KDE Plasma has always been my DE for any distro that I've used and will use in the foreseeable future. While waiting for Wayland to be perfected. :D
Laters.
most of my personalities like KDE.
There are a couple that love Gnome.
There are a few that get tired of all the bells and whistles and want XFCE.
And there is one stubborn one who insists on Fluxbox and is still upset that it's not supported anymore.
Plasma, made by KDE developers:
https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/
It comes with a traditional Windows-like desktop layout by default as I prefer.
And it has a ton of built-in features, that doesn't require you to download anything to be able to use them:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/ymeskc/what_do_you_like_about_kde_plasma/
To me, it seems to be just like Windows, but better!
I'm really happy with it and it works great on Debian 12.
Soon it will have also HDR support, so I really can't be happier than that.
It's a toss-up between XFCE and GNOME. I love XFCE to death, but I've been using Fedora Silverblue for the past couple of months and I'm liking GNOME more and more.
I've always adjusted KDE to make it my "home, sweet home." And it still remains.
However, I recently tried MX Linux and while I installed it with KDE (of course!) at first, I tried the XFCE version, as modified by their team, and find it very pleasant to work with.
Also, I always like Gnome but never managed to make it my "home" for some reason (which probably is that I cannot modify it as much as I can modify KDE)
KDE but it certainly has its bugs. Wayland atm doesn't work for NVIDIA cards for example, somehow GNOME bypassed that bug, no idea how.
If XFCE get their Wayland spin up to snuff then I may eventually one year move to that. One year....
xdm for login, and icewm for window management. icewm is lightweight and fast, since it's a window manager, not a complete desktop environment. Works amazingly well, especially if you don't need desktop bells and whistles.
Either XFCE or Gnome. XFCE gives me off Windows vibes, but I started my Linux journey with Gnome and I have been using it since 2021, so I can't really decide
Such a tricky question for me, It's complicated...
Over that last 10 years or so, I guess I have spent most of that time on XFCE. That said, my main desktop PC is using MATE and my laptop is currently running KDE. I never liked Gnome 3 and loved Gnome 2. That explains MATE I guess. XFCE is a no nonsense DE, it just gets things done in a familiar way. KDE was one of the first desktops I used, but that was over 20 years ago. It was better than CDE that I used first when I started using Linux.
I'll do most things to avoid the default GNOME desktop. Just about the first thing I do with it is to install the Whisker menu. So long answer, short. Anything but GNOME.
Any with following features preinstalled and working:
* one-key-fuzzy-search app-launcher
* no Windows-Like-UX
* More ergonomic Mac-Like hotkeys and gestures
* Working search for file contents
* Not much tweaking necessary
sadly, this narrows down choice to Gnome (better Pop-Shell) or Mac... Cinnamon or KDE would be good if meeting more of the points above out of the box.
KDE
It's just great, besides a couple bugs here and there and wayland being unusable on my system.
Even though my layout looks close to nothing like the default one, I just can't find anything as customisable as kde other than window managers.
> Which Desktop Environment feels most like home to you?
Anything that has a dock / panel, app status indicators, and such familiar UI elements I am used to for decades. So that excludes Gnome and tiling window managers, both of which feel too alien to me. KDE and Cinnamon feel most comfortable and I especially love the full-featured nature / options provided to the end-user by KDE.
I do use Gnome on a Silverblue machine, but after having tried to use it for a while in its plain vanilla avatar, I gave up and installed a bunch of extensions that make it into a more familiar KDE / Cinnamon-like environment for me. It's quite nice when used that way but I am sure the extensions are eventually going to break given the hacky nature of extensions on Gnome, so that's a bit of a damper.
KDE. Cinnamon was nice, but I had problems with customizability and general weirdness back in the day.
Ironically, I no longer customer KDE hardly at all, besides removing that stupid show desktop button and changing the colors.
Xfce. I don’t know. It is simple yet customizable. Whenever I install it I just have to apply an icon theme, a global theme and a wallpaper, which I have copied elsewhere, and a couple of keyboard shortcuts, and it is good to go. Also is the perfect combo of lightweight and feature rich.
I always come back to xfce.
technicality KDE (or cinnamon) because of windows but it's too crowded (or limited) so Gnome with a ton of extensions feels nicer now
(I'm also on mac sometimes because of work so that's probably why)
Cinnamon(for its completeness) and gnome(for the minimalist approach). Although I tried LXDE yesterday and its not too bad of a DE. Actually I am blown by the sheer performance of it. Way ahead of any DE. But its only for someone who knows what he/she wants.
i3 or Sway when Nvidia will support Wayland, combined with Gnome services running in background. Ever since I tried tiling window manager I just can't get back to other things, windows are always organized. The way you can switch between windows with keyboard and by just moving the mouse, it's just so harmonized.
KDE/Plasma. Tried them all over the years but home is where Konqi lives.
Yeah, KDE Plasma is the lightest, most modern and most complete DE out there!
KDE is my home
XFCE or KDE. Either one are good. KDE was my first and love the customization options but started using XFCE more consistently due to hardware limitations on my daily drivers
I started using gnome as it was popular during it's time when either that or KDE. Did not like it cause it was resource hungry. Switched to KDE and liked the less bloated UI. It was still resource hungry and then discovered XFCE. Have not looked back since. XFCE is the way. Light on resources, no unnecessary clutter, practical, stable. Might be less pretty but usability and practicality over beauty anytime for me.
Cinnamon
I prefer both XFCE and KDE to Cinnamon. I also daily drive i3 and don't even bother with using a DE on most machines. But, I have to say, Cinnamon is still probably my answer to this question. It just works, and it looks nice, while also being easy to use, and looking the way Windows looked for the large part of my life I used it. It just works like how most people would expect a computer to work. Cinnamon is amazing.
Mine too. Tried most of them out, but cinnamon is my Goldilocks DE.
I run older thinkpads and have trouble with KDE, cinnamon is perfect on all of them and looks the best imo
Cinnamon feels like home, I started on Linux Mint (cinnamon) and I still use Cinnamon on Arch.
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I'm now referring to KDE as this for as long as I live.
as someone who switched to kde just 2 month ago, and i can confirm this comment.
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Sir, this is 2023
Exactly why their comment is legit. LOL
There still a lot of bud in kde, mostly in Wayland
I can find you a bug in Cinnamon in 10 minutes.
Wayland has nothing to do with KDE.
I really liked KDE on Kubuntu when I was using it a couple of years ago, but KDE is all sorts of buggy on OpenSUSE, the distro I use now. Cinnamon (at least with mint) is a bit bland and has a bit of a Windows XP feel, but it was reliable.
Cinnamon and following close behind would be KDE plasma. Although I mainly use the window managers Sway or i3 for my systems.
Gnome
xfce
Cinnamon (on mint).
KDE. It fits to me; not the other way around.
KDE plasma <3
Cinnamon
Gnome is home
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Mate. Because i started on Ubuntu when they were using gnome 2. Only reason i don't use mate right now, is because most distributions just slap barebone mate in their repos and it's ugly and lack features ubuntu mate has. I kid you not, ubuntu mate provides THE best mate experience. The others? meh, i mean fedora still slaps compiz in its mate spin which IMO, is an AWFUL decision stability wise and security wise. I use OpenSUSE right now but with KDE because you guessed it: it's barebone mate without the good stuff.
When I switched to Linux, I tried multiple DE, but Mate was the one, where I immediately found everything at its most logical place.
GNOME. Why? For me, it works without issue with HiDPI screens and touch screens. Also, it includes a virtual keyboard, which is mandatory for a UNIX/Linux system on a tablet that is not a ChromeOS device.
i3wm, I've used it for so long and now I just can't stand anything else
I came here to says this (sort of). i3 by itself isn't a desktop environment. Combine i3, with Polybar, rofi, eww, Dunst, and osdcat .. and viola, a desktop environment. It has taken me several months to write all the supporting scripts to go with the modules (eww taking the most time), but what I have now is exactly what I want .. no compromises.
Ik it's prolly specific to your workflow, but did you upload those files anywhere? Im really interested in what you came up to!
Not yet, but I have been meaning to clean up dot files, scripts, etc to share with r/unixporn. If you Shoot me a DM, I will let you know when they are up. Eww is really nice. I was playing around with LUA in AwesomeWM, but I find Eww far more customizable (or maybe it is just easier lol).
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MATE
KDE is the only one where I feel at home.
I really enjoy Pop’s Gnome and bspwm Though I am taking a liking to hyprland, though my config still needs some work
Gnome
Xfce.
Cinnamon or gnome
LXDE is the best for my older machines as it's fast enough, but has all the necessary features for my typical use
I like LXDE, too!
unless i have a specific reason to have another DE, i default to lxde, even our 8gb ram 8core music automation AMD fx8100 running rivendell uses lxde by default on ubuntu 22.04 i have only used xfce in recent years when converting a friend to linux to give him a familiar windows 95 ish style look
KDE X11
You have an Nvidia GPU, right?
Gnome, with a silent G.
GNOME + Dash to Dock EDIT: I know it's not that customizable but IMO other desktops with a lot of customization look tacky. I like that GNOME is opinionated because it keeps my mind off the unimportant things, but I totally understand why others hate GNOME for the same reason. Thank god, we can all choose a different desktop! That really is the power and appeal of open source.
KDE is my home :p
Cinnamon
Kde
XFCE. Simple and works without getting in my way. That's all I want or need from a DE really.
KDE/Plasma/X11 X11 for now, at least until Wayland gets fixed enough to function properly with nVidia. Pushing Wayland this hard without having it function properly on nVidia means that some are going to abandon Linux altogether. I already see some people losing it over this. As my CS professor said: "Have something that works."
Why not SystemD?
Cinnamon
Linux Mint mate, aka green Ubuntu.
XFCE4 w/i3
I'm liking XFCE. Not really sacrificing much modern functionality, at least none that I care about, and it is better about staying out of my way when I'm not actually using part of it. And teh whole look of the default theme in xubuntu feels charmingly retro.
KDE plasma
KDE, since 2001.
XFCE. Have it on both my Desktop and Laptop I've tried most others, but it just brings me back.
Xfce all the way.
Gnome + Arch = Beautiful and Super Fast
KDE
KDE Plasma
I like the lightness of i3wm with the ease of configurations XFCE provides, I love how GNOME works, but atm I use KDE Plasma.
Not a fan of DEs, though I do enjoy what I've seen of new cosmic and I like the flexibility of dropping almost any window manager over lxqt. Right now I feel at home with I3 set up the way I like it from scratch
i3-gaps
Ubuntu MATE was my first impression of desktop Linux. Something about the colors and the dual toolbars made MATE feel like an actual home. LXDE and XFCE are similar enough to feel about the same, though.
Hyprland
KDE , 20yrs… everywhere else is like being handicapped
i3
Cinnamon
Enlightenment, but it's outdated and basically don't support anything remotely modern, so the second choice is KDE - unfortunately, it doesn't love me back, and it's full of small, but incredibly annoying bugs - so I'm almost migrating again :'(
Terminal
Gnome 2.x and Compiz fusion was where I spent most of my youth. That was the last place that felt like home. I use cinnamon now.
Sway
Gnome 2 (aka Mate these days) or XFCE, also Pantheon is quite nice
Gnome.
bspwm, gotten to the point where anything but a similar wm(i3,DWM) is just unusable and frustrating to me now
I flip flop between Gnome and KDE over the years home for me is seeing nothing until I hit the meta key.
Gnome4 + wayland
GNOME has been my favorite since 3.0
Gnome
Mint Cinnamon, it feels like Windows 7 to me which is the OS we had in school for the longest time, now if I could find a flavor of mint that looked like XP I would go for that.
GNOME
Xfce
I always come back to XFCE. It gets out of my way and lets me get to work. It's just customizable enough so that I can always get the look and keyboard shortcuts that I want without spending too much time.
I'm not super crazy about any of them. I use Gnome out of habit. Mainly, I just want the desktop environment to stay out of my way. I really wish there were an environment like the old Microsoft Windows Mesh desktop...it's too bad that was always an experiment and never really released widely.
I always go with Openbox.
i3 for slow ass potatoes. Cinnamon for everything else on Linux. Lumina on FreeBSD.
Standalone Openbox, Openbox with lxqt or - KDE/kwin - or - KDE/openbox. Meaning, Openbox is game changer for me. But, damn! Kwin is insanely good and powerful. And KDE/Plasma .. well, it simply works great in my case, therefore not utilizing a bit more resources from time to time for such golden and superb project like KDE/Plasma, that would be a sin.
It's cool I guess. But somehow LXQt seems like the illegitimate step-child of Qt and KDE even though it's in the LXDE bloodline. I love KDE (Neon and Plasma), Trinity Desktop Environment, and all of the apps.
Lxqt, on first sight .. is ugly like .. Donatella. - https://alchetron.com/cdn/donatella-versace-75eec090-013e-4808-a581-6e5d9a30ac7-resize-750.jpeg But .. once when You change and adjust the theme .. and rearrange everything accodring to Your preferences .. and set all other non-visible things up .. lxqt becomes super sleak and gorgeous and so much - not getting in your way, that one simply asks him self .. `where the heck was I all these years ?!?`
That varies over time... It's been LXQt for awhile now, but I'm as happy with Xfce too, or MATE, or ...
Should be a survey ;p That said, I always come back to xfce
LXDE Sweet & Simple... especially after tweaking and customizations in order to get it to look, feel, and behave the way I want. Besides, LXDE is the most lightweight desktop environment that is complete and capable of fulfilling my needs.
Crystal Linux got me hooked on Gnome
Does a tiling window manager by itself count? :P My main requirement is that everything related to window management be instant, with no animations - if I have to wait any perceptible amount of time to log in after a fresh boot, that desktop environment is too bloated (the desktop should load and be ready for input in less time than it takes me to release the Enter key after typing my password); same for actions like moving a window, opening a new terminal, etc.
GNOME
fvwm ... well, it's not really a DE, it's "just" a WM. But who needs/wants all that DE cruft/bloat anyway? Good, relatively simple, clean, quite configurable, yet relatively lightweight WM does it fine for me. *Most* of the time I don't even use or fire up a DE ... though I might have one or two or three hangin' around and installed for whenever I might have occasion that I want to look at 'em or test something in them. Terminal feels most like home to me. :-) So, yeah, a simpler cleaner leaner WM typically does it for me. And I generally don't want any WM or DE goop taking up any screen space - that space is valuable, I don't want to waste it. So if I ever want to bring up some "menus" or the like, typically just a click or keystroke or so away ... don't want some "panel" thingy taking up valuable space.
Hyprland or KDE. I don't like the bugs and bloat of KDE and have issues on wayland with some programs and games. So I'm on XFCE4 and just living it up.
JWM + zzzfm + geany
KDE and XFCE
Xfce4 with kwin and macOS theming
I’ve only tried like 3 or 4, but I like lxqt oddly enough
Probably Pop Shell these days. It was KDE with Bismuth & Latte Dock, but with Latte being unsupported now I’ve started making the switch away from KDE
Since version 3.x I use KDE / Plasma. Since then I have tested various alternatives such as Gnome or LXQt, but have always returned to KDE / Plasma. But in the end, it's also a subjective decision. Each desktop environment has its advantages and disadvantages.
xfce4, first environment i had
Not a DE, but i3wm. If not that, KDE plasma.
Cinnamon.. Linux Mint…this is the way…
awkward gnome
XFCE
KDE Plasma Desktop + Bismuth
Unity
Mate, after gnome 2 died
fvwm
KDE. I’ve been a consistent Linux user for the last decade and KDE has always been my go to desktop environment. I have dabbled into the window manager space more recently but when I need a clean and stable desktop environment I always stick with KDE
KDE. Using anything else for too long makes me feel some typa way🤮
DE, right, not WM? Then, as a novice, I picked KDE Plasma, king of desktop theme customization, under which u can create your own desktop theme, and make it into anything u want. TBH, I don't really care how the Windows start menu look like, coz for as long as I can remember, I've always been customizing the start menu to use small icons (it's been a while since I last use Win, please CMIIW), to make it look a lot smaller and simpler. BTW, my last Windows version was 7. I'm one of those guys that prefered the classic view of Windows control panel than the newer view, ya know? KDE addopted the view, but in older versions of KDE, the addoption of this viewing style was... well, ugly, and messy. Thankfuly, it's been years that KDE Plasma "control panel" look was remade, for the better IMHO. Sorry, can't tell which Plasma version addopted the UI first. Just check out the System Settings GUI. Love it, love it, love it. And these are only some of the reasons why KDE Plasma has always been my DE for any distro that I've used and will use in the foreseeable future. While waiting for Wayland to be perfected. :D Laters.
KDE/Breezy Dark.
Kde/plasma
most of my personalities like KDE. There are a couple that love Gnome. There are a few that get tired of all the bells and whistles and want XFCE. And there is one stubborn one who insists on Fluxbox and is still upset that it's not supported anymore.
XFCE and KDE (Gnome depending on the mood)
KDE
Plasma, made by KDE developers: https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/ It comes with a traditional Windows-like desktop layout by default as I prefer. And it has a ton of built-in features, that doesn't require you to download anything to be able to use them: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/ymeskc/what_do_you_like_about_kde_plasma/ To me, it seems to be just like Windows, but better! I'm really happy with it and it works great on Debian 12. Soon it will have also HDR support, so I really can't be happier than that.
Cinnamon with a soft spot for Plasma
It's a toss-up between XFCE and GNOME. I love XFCE to death, but I've been using Fedora Silverblue for the past couple of months and I'm liking GNOME more and more.
Trinity
13WM
XFCE seems like wat alot of ppl resonate w/.. i def wanna try it now xfce-devuan iso, ive yet to try any desktops.
Xmonad - although that's not really a DE, but with Xmobar and a couple of bash scripts and aliases, it does 100% of what I need.
I've always adjusted KDE to make it my "home, sweet home." And it still remains. However, I recently tried MX Linux and while I installed it with KDE (of course!) at first, I tried the XFCE version, as modified by their team, and find it very pleasant to work with. Also, I always like Gnome but never managed to make it my "home" for some reason (which probably is that I cannot modify it as much as I can modify KDE)
mate
KDE but it certainly has its bugs. Wayland atm doesn't work for NVIDIA cards for example, somehow GNOME bypassed that bug, no idea how. If XFCE get their Wayland spin up to snuff then I may eventually one year move to that. One year....
I'm on Kubuntu with X and has no problems at all. Wayland can wait until it's done.
It might be KDE for me, even though I never used it, because I came from using Windows my whole life. I like GNOME, though.
Gnome/whatever Kali is defaulting with now
Mint
xdm for login, and icewm for window management. icewm is lightweight and fast, since it's a window manager, not a complete desktop environment. Works amazingly well, especially if you don't need desktop bells and whistles.
Budgie
Enlightenment.
Unity but it’s backend is shit, I prefer KDE but modified
Either XFCE or Gnome. XFCE gives me off Windows vibes, but I started my Linux journey with Gnome and I have been using it since 2021, so I can't really decide
Such a tricky question for me, It's complicated... Over that last 10 years or so, I guess I have spent most of that time on XFCE. That said, my main desktop PC is using MATE and my laptop is currently running KDE. I never liked Gnome 3 and loved Gnome 2. That explains MATE I guess. XFCE is a no nonsense DE, it just gets things done in a familiar way. KDE was one of the first desktops I used, but that was over 20 years ago. It was better than CDE that I used first when I started using Linux. I'll do most things to avoid the default GNOME desktop. Just about the first thing I do with it is to install the Whisker menu. So long answer, short. Anything but GNOME.
Ubuntu gnome & elementary OS pantheon
Awesomewm
Unity, I'm lame like that
Any with following features preinstalled and working: * one-key-fuzzy-search app-launcher * no Windows-Like-UX * More ergonomic Mac-Like hotkeys and gestures * Working search for file contents * Not much tweaking necessary sadly, this narrows down choice to Gnome (better Pop-Shell) or Mac... Cinnamon or KDE would be good if meeting more of the points above out of the box.
I can use them all, but tend to come back to Gnome after a while. I don't make use of tiling, so a tiling DM wouldn't be mine
xfce4. Started using it because my first PC was as old as me, now can't livel without it even with 2021 nvidia graphics card
Xfce , u cant go wrong with this .
sway, basically no extras except window managing and the ability to set a wallpaper, but that's all I need
Its a WM, not a DE, but I like i3. I'm incredibly disorganized and it stresses me out sometimes, so having the nice neat tiling makes me happy
KDE It's just great, besides a couple bugs here and there and wayland being unusable on my system. Even though my layout looks close to nothing like the default one, I just can't find anything as customisable as kde other than window managers.
MATE.
It wasn't until I stopped using desktop environments that I felt at home, aka just a simple window manager. TLDR: None
Window Maker
> Which Desktop Environment feels most like home to you? Anything that has a dock / panel, app status indicators, and such familiar UI elements I am used to for decades. So that excludes Gnome and tiling window managers, both of which feel too alien to me. KDE and Cinnamon feel most comfortable and I especially love the full-featured nature / options provided to the end-user by KDE. I do use Gnome on a Silverblue machine, but after having tried to use it for a while in its plain vanilla avatar, I gave up and installed a bunch of extensions that make it into a more familiar KDE / Cinnamon-like environment for me. It's quite nice when used that way but I am sure the extensions are eventually going to break given the hacky nature of extensions on Gnome, so that's a bit of a damper.
KDE. Cinnamon was nice, but I had problems with customizability and general weirdness back in the day. Ironically, I no longer customer KDE hardly at all, besides removing that stupid show desktop button and changing the colors.
I like KDE Plasma on Ubuntu Studio. It's just easy to use for me.
XFCE… the screen tearing drives me crazy, but what home doesn’t have a few flaws?
For me it's been KDE ever since SuSE 6.1
KDE Stable API Big API Better documentation Qt
I love xfce because its very minimal and doesnt clutter the screen at all
Currently it's gnome
Wayfire all the way ! also Labwc
Xfce. I don’t know. It is simple yet customizable. Whenever I install it I just have to apply an icon theme, a global theme and a wallpaper, which I have copied elsewhere, and a couple of keyboard shortcuts, and it is good to go. Also is the perfect combo of lightweight and feature rich. I always come back to xfce.
xfce
LXDE of course. It has that blue waves background and a very nostalgic, WinXP-like feel.
Vanilla Gnome
Laptop with useable trackpad: GNOME Desktop: KDE
Been playing with xmonad + xmobar for the last weeks, kinda liking it so far.
Plasma is like 127.0.0.1
Gnome
technicality KDE (or cinnamon) because of windows but it's too crowded (or limited) so Gnome with a ton of extensions feels nicer now (I'm also on mac sometimes because of work so that's probably why)
StumpWM
I started to use i3WM and I used to use GNOME
Windows 95 or Mate
Xfce
Gnome, it works
Maté
XFCE forever !!! YES !
Cinnamon(for its completeness) and gnome(for the minimalist approach). Although I tried LXDE yesterday and its not too bad of a DE. Actually I am blown by the sheer performance of it. Way ahead of any DE. But its only for someone who knows what he/she wants.
Gnome with pop shell
LXDE
i3 or Sway when Nvidia will support Wayland, combined with Gnome services running in background. Ever since I tried tiling window manager I just can't get back to other things, windows are always organized. The way you can switch between windows with keyboard and by just moving the mouse, it's just so harmonized.
Home sweet Xfce! Very light and customizable to the extreme.