For me its KDE.
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.
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.
KDE is love, KDE is life
Absolutely KDE Plasma.
KDE Plasma on desktop
Cinnamon on (older lower spec) laptop
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.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.
Came to say KDE/Plasma. Glad it was already on top
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
GNOME, with a little bit of extension customisability!
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i3. I mean, it’s fast, customizable, and you can make it look good. That’s all i need.
Cinnamon is the best
XFCE, tried cinnamon a couple times it was okay but I just prefer the simplicity and stability of xfce
Xfce, i just like it.
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.