This isn't even hard. KDE without a second thought.
I regularly try other desktops, and I regularly come back to the only desktop with any sort of reasonable thought put into it.
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KDE. Been upgrading the same environment for 5 years just keeps getting better.
I started around maybe KDE 3?
Was on KDE 2, KDE 3 was absolutely incredible, ran it on Mac when it was supported on xquartz.
4 was a mess, but got better, 5 & 6 are fine, but it's overall far better than any other DE, it's just so customizable, the only other thing that comes close is xmonad or something.
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I keep coming back to KDE time and time again. It's so easy to mess with, I can set it up exactly how I like it without much effort, and it always looks good because someone else did all the work making themes and widgets I use.
That said, I love XFCE, I'm just trash with CSS so it takes me forever to get it how I like, and on my Surface I can't get the scaling to work so everything is beyond tiny.
Mint
XFCE. It's lightweight, easy to tweak and looks great. I run it on my 6 y.o. potato laptop
The surprising thing is that KDE would run on there just fine too. If you don't add all the PIM stuff, it's almost a wash in memory usage and just as snappy.
😂
Lol, yep. It's always funny to see xfce as being light weight.
Is this where I continue the meme and say I use arch by the way?
On the other hand KDE discover... Yikes. The software manager uses as much memory as XFCE.
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Until my laptop dies or cannot support it, I'm sticking with KDE Plasma. Love how MX configured it (because I'm lazy) and absolutely will keep using it for as long as my laptop survived or can hold it.
Might try other ones in VMs (like ratpoison) in the future for other machines I might set up in the future, but for now KDE Plasma is my go-to that I'll probably be using for a long time.
I'd say Gnome, since I'm so used to it that I feel it doesn't get in the way of the things I'm doing.
Because that would be my aim: something that doesn't interfere with the work I am doing.
Not a DE, but I've been using sway for around 5 years now, and I have no intention of moving away from it unless something really bad happens. I love using it, and it's been behaving perfectly all tgis time.
Xfce, and Cinnamon. You can't force me to choose just one.
Ran KDE then Gnome a long time ago. Now it's openbox wm.
Gnome.
KDE Plasma, I can't go back to SDR
Xfce, ol' reliable.
Cinnamon by and far.
I've used so many distros and DEs I don't even know where to begin, but Cinnamon got me hooked for the long run. It's legitimately the most polished and "ready to run" DE I've ever used, yet still allowing for far more customization than Windows ever offered.
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Well, for me it would be the setup i am now using since about 15 years:
WM: flwm Filemanager: ROX-Filer Background: feh
... and a ton of tools i accumulated over the yesrs
Definitely Gnome here. Though I have a long list of notes, it mostly just works exactly like I expect with little friction or guessing. I donate $100/year to both Gnome and KDE since they are both good pieces of software, and I love that I get to chose mine. Further, I think KDE is the logical choice for something like the SteamDeck where it's going to have a lot of gamers that expect computers to work like Windows. (even if I don't like it, >_<)
I'm in either terminal or browser most of the time, DE is not an issue for me... KDE has an easy battery life optimization feature for laptops, so I guess I'll go KDE
LXQT or KDE I just like the QT look and feel.
GNOME is great in general but not for me, it is too much MacOS alike and too limited for my liking.
fvwm :)
till
\sigh
You've obviously felt my pain. Maybe 6th install will take 🤞
gnome head all the way!!!
I'll stay on XFCE until I die ... or until my Hyprland config is finished. Whichever comes first.