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If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose? (lemmy.world)

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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.

Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.

After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.

What about you guys?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

KDE. Been upgrading the same environment for 5 years just keeps getting better.

I started around maybe KDE 3?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Glad KDE has been putting major efforts over recent years into improving stability instead of just adding features.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I mean, they added a ton of features, especially minor or niche ones, but a lot of amazing ones like KDEConnect too.

But what makes KDE the best is that the features don't get in the way of core functionality anymore, the basic DE is always safe and they generally layer stuff on such that it doesn't break anything.

So basically the opposite of most of modern software nowadays.