Favourite DE

My favourite DE has got to be Cinnamon, as much as I like KDE and XFCE, I prefer the simplicity of cinnamon where as in KDE has a bit too much of everything in the customization scene and XFCE I find a little tricky to get tiling working right.

Cinnamon to me is perfect as I easily transferred from Win 10 to Mint and soon Manjaro Cinnamon Edition.

What is your favourite DE and why? Tiling WM DE's can be counted as well seeing as they have nifty navigation features.

bionicjoey ,

KDE. Looks great OOTB. Looks better if you spend an hour or two setting it up on day 1.

Red_sun_in_the_sky ,
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I would say aesthetically always preferred gnome but my laptop which is pretty low end ran slow on it. Kde is in that ballpark for my laptop in terms slowdowns but for the most part it floated through. That was when I used like manjaro.

But I moved on to antix for stability. It has icewm that they configured for the distro. I loved it.

Due to some hardware issue I tested out other distros to see if it was hardware issue or not. Currently my laptop has gnome on it I think.

MXX53 ,

I like KDE. But when I need x11 or something lighter weight, I use budgie.

penquin ,
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Kde plasma for all the reasons you hate it for 😂

999999999 ,
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Gnome for its looks, simplicity and intuitive ways, but after Plasma 6 release, KDE seems to be up par with Gnome's UI/UX so at the moment Plasma ia my favourite desktop.

As for WMs I tried i3, Sway, and Hyprland. Overall Hyprland is my favourite because of its special workspace mechanics, customization and options. But if looks had no value to you and you like Sway's scratchpad mechanic then sway is for you (plus its documentation is mostly clearer, better organized and well written than Hyprland). Btw I am not comparing their tiling because there are use cases for each person and you can acomplish each others tiling mode with plugins.

JustMarkov ,

I use KDE, because it runs perfectly on wayland and covers 100% of my needs.
Budgie looks very promising now and I want to explore it further. Also LXQT is perfect for older devices or if you want a KDE, but simplier.

boredsquirrel ,

I prefer KDE a lot, because:

  • the UI is simple, material-ish and beautiful
  • it doesnt sacrifice usability or waste screen space like GNOMEs minimalism. I especially like the buttons etc. of Qt apps, where GIMP is already struggling with the huge hugeness of GTK3.
  • it runs 100% on Wayland
  • it runs GNOME apps without modifying them a bit. There is an issue where Fedora doesnt want to use Adwaita icons, but a short autostart entry solves that. KDE Breeze dark/light can sync to adwaita dark/light
  • KDE has tons of legacy support features, have a look at my experiment where I explored many of them
  • it is modular and can be pretty minimal (I would like a more barebones version, without all the floating stuff etc)
  • all the settings are in the same app! This is a huge issue with all the small ones, where nontechnical users need to know the difference between "GTK settings" "lightDM settings", etc.
  • Systemsettings are searchable, all settings pages are accessible from the global search, some pages are even shown when you use an alternative word, you can always search in english and your local language
  • it is very actively developed
  • it has tons of unique features.
  • it has the biggest most complex apps situated in a DE on Linux. Period. KDEnlive, digiKam, Krita, Kate, Dolphin, ...
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