Bottom left is Awesome WM. Ask me anything or tell us your picks!
(and feel free to tear me apart on my picks)
Favorite: Cinnamon.
Honorable Mention: KDE.
Least Favorite: Gnome.
First: Gnome.
Current: Cinnamon.
Longest Used: KDE.
Future: CinnamonNiri + dank material shell over here. I absolutely love the infinite horizontal desktop
Sway all the way bay bay
I use Linux btw
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 It sounds like everyone has outdated opinions on it.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.
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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is rough, but arcmenu for customizable start menu, and a couple other extensions that ive never had issues with being outdated make it the best de for me, kde I end up adding too much clutter or never feel satisfied customizing compared to gnomes default look
What’s that raindrop one in the middle?
Hyperland, a wayland based tiling wm
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.
All of the boxes are KDE, except
Least favorite: GNOME
Current distro: Garuda
First: kde Least favorite: xfce Favorite: niri Currently using: niri gnome and kde Honorable mention: cosmic
Favorite and first WM: i3
First and only DE: GNOME
Honorable mention: cinnamon
Favorite: In usability KDE, in looks XFCE-winxptc
Least favorite: I3 (I can’t be bothered especially when it’s x11)
First: Unity
Honorauble mention: Hyprland (wasn’t difficult to config)
Current: xfce-winxptc (it almost works perfectly for daily use but dolphin causes the theming to break and resets icons, but most importantly there’s no search I have to use a keyboard shortcut for that.)
Longest used: KDE
DE I wanna use: xfce-winxptc with extra functionality.
Current distro: Cachy OS (First arch based distro that didn’t black screen in the first month.)
First used: TWM / TVWM
Then: FVWM
Then: Windowmaker
Then: Enlightenment (briefly)
Then: Gnome (briefly)
Then KDE (to this day)I played around with a number of others, but never really used them much.
fluxbox
BSPWM was my favorite back in the day. Used Hyperland and i3 for a while. I much prefer KDE over Gnome. Mangowm is where it’s at how.
