KDE. I don’t have to change anything (other than taskbars on all monitors rather than just the main one) for an experience I like. Everything just works. Wayland support is best in class.
I don’t like gnome’s workflow and it takes COSMIC level customization for me to like it. And technical issues are common for me. Namely windows constantly spawning off screen and delayed reactions.
XFCE’s default layout is absolutely horrible and there’s no Wayland support. Mint XFCE’s implementation is good though.
Cinnamon, in my experience, is buggy and has similar technical problems to gnome.
I’ve used i3wm and it’s okay, but I would never use it on my main desktop. Takes a certain kind of workflow.
I’ve messed with AwesomeWM and can say it’s very ok.
LXDE/LXQT are obsolete. Not old school, obsolete. And in the case of QT, there’s absolutely no reason to use it when XFCE has the same ram usage anyway.
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I haven’t used any other desktops other than these.
I ended a 30-years Windows streak BECAUSE of KDE Plasma 6 (among other reasons)
XFCE
i3, not for any smart reason, just bc it was the first tiling wm that i used, and i dont have a reason to switch
And for the Waylanders like me, we have sway.
preparing to make the jump to linux soon. Here for recommendations. I haven’t been happy with windows since XP.
Linux Mint
Nobara. It’s Fedora KDE with everything fixed and unlocked.
Fedora KDE. Just be sure to enable 3rd party repos (very easy and quick job, just a google search away).
Don’t wait. Get Linux Mint Cinnamon / LMDE on a USB and install it.
If you don’t like Debian based or Linux Mint for some reason, then check out Nobara or Fedora KDE spin. EndeavourOS is also great.
KDE Plasma. It works for me, and it has enough features so that I can adapt it to my workflow as my workflow changes.
I daily drive Window managers but occasionally I also check out Desktop environments. Here is my personal preference -
DE
- XFCE
- KDE
- Cinnamon
WM
- Hyprland
- BSPWM
- Openbox / Labwc
I have never known what the difference between DE and WM, well, I still don’t know really…
A DE tries to be a full operating environment, it has panels and configuration tools and (…) all as part of the package
A WM only does window management, and other things need to be added separately. The line blurs a bit since most people who use WMs end up adding a lot of other stuff to them to the point it might as well be a DE, only it was built piecemeal.
So there is no DE with hyperland as WM? I want something like gnome with the forge extension but not es buggy 😂
None that I know of. Though you can build your own operating environment centered around Hyprland. Their wiki is pretty good and their config files are nice and simple to understand. I did that for a lark a few months back.
… The catch is that, y’know, it’s a whole afternoon spent tinkering to get it right.
Well that seems promising 😃 only one day seems doable 🤟🏻🤣 I’ll try to add it to my gnome arch as second option
YMMV of course. It took me an afternoon to get it to a point where it had the stuff I needed and was enjoyable to use.
… f’course I didn’t stick with it, as I said in my toplevel post, turns out tiling WMs aren’t for me.
My DE choices:
- KDE Plasma – It’s pretty, it’s customizable. Workflow is customizable
- XFCE – Honestly I consider XFCE to be like Plasma’s sibling, in that its workflow is also very customizable and there is a lot of space for theming, but is lighter and acts nicer on weaker hardware
I tried Gnome and I just hate it? It needs a lot of fennagling to look and act in a way I find enjoyable. Cinnamon is eeeeeeeeehhhhh.
WM-wise, I played with Hyprland and I3WM, but tiling WMs aren’t for me. They just aren’t. For what convenience I gained from being able to use Super+something to do basically everything, I don’t enjoy the workflow.
I also used Wayfire for a bit – Writing my own configuration file and customizing everything IS fun, but like… Nah?
Let the chant begin
KDE! KDE! KDE! Death to foot fetish Death to mice Death to everybody who dont rice
KDE! KDE! KDE!
Upvoted for the limerick.
You have been banned by Red Hat’s management
Isn’t fedora switching to KDE default?
That would be a major miracle. Like, Jesus walking on water level.
Hey man… Don’t break the dreams of a little child
No, there’s a proposal, but hasn’t been accepted afaik
How do I support it?
work at red hat or become fedora maintainer
XFCE with OpenSuse style is my favorite. Low resource usage, windows-easy ability to put shortcuts all over the desktop (fuck you, Unity), searchbox that just works. I don’t need to spend hours or months customizing the setup for it to work as I want.
Gnome, hands now. Before coming to Linux, I was an Apple user. I was a fan of their design philosophy - minimalism, clarity and simplicity. Well, I can’t tolerate Apple as an enterprise, and there are also a lot of very weird design desicions which I discovered while using their devives - but the core principle is something I stand by. Gnome in my opinion is exactly that - KISS, and all the options are really polished.
I’ve tried KDE as well, and have a lot of respect for the developers of it. But after using it for a few days, there are just a lot of inconsistencies in the KDE applications which don’t make sense to me.
Gnome for the win!!!1!1!1!1!1!
Is gnome claiming to be older than kde? 'cause it isn’t. Gnome was started because decades ago, the license for the qt library used by kde wasn’t quite open enough.
i interpreted it as the user’s first DE was gnome :)
Maybe because I used windows first and not Mac, but KDE. Gnome is just opensource Mac DE/WM with the same mentality “we know what’s best for you and you’ll like it”.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
KDE was first.
cosmic
