For me its KDE.
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I use gnome, but it’s basically the worst DE, except all of the other ones that have been tried
It has the least features, so by default the least bugs.
Vanilla Gnome. It’s simple/boring, and I like that. It seems like most people that like Gnome don’t care that it’s not a poweruser DE, and aren’t excited to talk about it either.
KDE is love, KDE is life
Absolutely KDE Plasma.
KDE sets a really high bar with all the packages and extensibility. Almost everything (not including the lesser known and used packages) is feature-packed and
just works. I really don’t know any other software that constantly amazes me like KDE.Came to say KDE/Plasma. Glad it was already on top
KDE Plasma 5.27 is incredible. Such a stable and customizable experience! 😍
In addition to that, they make nice FOSS apps that are great for any DE (see Krita, Kdenlive)
Also it looks like Windows, and that to me is a huge plus for anyone using my computer.
KDE Plasma on desktop
Cinnamon on (older lower spec) laptop
Gnome with pop_os tiling window manager
xfce for a very long time. I really like tiling WMs but always come back to xfce
Xfce is the best!
See I don’t really get the appeal of xfce, I kinda see it as the minimal DE you use if you’ve got low powered hardware or if you need a DE on a system that isn’t a personal computer and just need the bare minimum to run a graphical application or two
it’s the quickest fully featured de, and as an added bonus, it’s the least buggy of them all, it’s also very simple in it’s functioning, fairly close to a diy desktop + wm config, so tweaking random stuff like the compositor is easy to do and doesn’t break everything
i3. I mean, it’s fast, customizable, and you can make it look good. That’s all i need.
GNOME, with a little bit of extension customisability!
Cinnamon is the best
I avoided GNOME3 for the longest time, but I decided to try it on a new install of Debian on a whim and actually ended up really liking it. Needed to enable a couple of extensions, but once you get used to it the workflow isn’t at all that bad.
Seems like I’m the outlier here that prefers Gnome over KDE. Gnome feels more polished than KDE for me. Granted KDE comes with more features out of the box, but I don’t find anything lacking in Gnome for me.
Tried KDE long time ago to compare it to Gnome 3, went back to Gnome. Tried KDE again a few months ago to compare to Gnome 42, came back to Gnome again.
I also can’t stand having all my programs’ name starting with K.
I like Gnome the best too. In my experience, it’s the desktop environment that focuses the most on making sure that no little bugs slip in. Like normally when you’re using a desktop environment, it will be good except for a few bugs here and there where you have to remember weird things like not backing out of the settings menu in a certain way in order to not trigger a bug. Gnome seems to have the least amount of weird little bugs like that.
It’s not very configurable out of the box, but I prefer that too. I’m getting a bit old and set in my ways, and don’t really want to mess around with too much configuration anymore.
I also can’t stand having all my programs’ name starting with K.
Like Okular, Spectacle, Dolphin, …
Maybe I shouldn’t have said all, but it’s annoying to me when the they put a “k” in the name in a very awkward way just because it’s an KDE app.
For aesthetics: Budgie, with Cinnamon a close second For simplicity and speed: XFCE
Cinnamon. Stupidly simple and elegant looking.
