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Is gnome claiming to be older than kde? 'cause it isn't. Gnome was started because decades ago, the license for the qt library used by kde wasn't quite open enough.

Let the chant begin

KDE! KDE! KDE! Death to foot fetish Death to mice Death to everybody who dont rice

KDE! KDE! KDE!

KDE Plasma. It works for me, and it has enough features so that I can adapt it to my workflow as my workflow changes.

Cinnamon

Hyprland

As a partaker of anime I know that being older isn't usually an advantage.

Also KDE wins. Fight me.

i3, not for any smart reason, just bc it was the first tiling wm that i used, and i dont have a reason to switch

After Plasma 6 released I prefer KDE over Gnome every day, I found that Plasma 5 was too messy, inconsistent and unintuitive even if Gnome was lacking in functionality. Even then I decided to move to i3 "just because" and now I'm transitioning to Sway. So far I think Sway is my favorite.

KDE was first.

FVWM.

I feel like the "desktop environment" is a Faustian bargain. You get a plateload of software that looks consistent, but none of it is best of breed.

I can recall being a bit wowed by the original KDE 1.0 betas on my old 486, when Konqueror was the file manager as much as the browser, but in the end it felt like thry were trying to recreate the experience you got wth the pack-in software of Windows 95.

And **** GNOME for really pushing the client-side decorations model. I configured my window manager to put the title bar and close button where I want it, thank you.

Gnome. I'm a Mac refugee from a decade ago. I've been using gnome with dash2dock and dash2panel together to make a sudo Mac os.

sway is the way.

Hyprland for now, but I'll probably switch to COSMIC, once it's available on NixOS

KDE. I don't have to change anything (other than taskbars on all monitors rather than just the main one) for an experience I like. Everything just works. Wayland support is best in class.

I don't like gnome's workflow and it takes COSMIC level customization for me to like it. And technical issues are common for me. Namely windows constantly spawning off screen and delayed reactions.

XFCE's default layout is absolutely horrible and there's no Wayland support. Mint XFCE's implementation is good though.

Cinnamon, in my experience, is buggy and has similar technical problems to gnome.

I've used i3wm and it's okay, but I would never use it on my main desktop. Takes a certain kind of workflow.

I've messed with AwesomeWM and can say it's very ok.

LXDE/LXQT are obsolete. Not old school, obsolete. And in the case of QT, there's absolutely no reason to use it when XFCE has the same ram usage anyway.

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I haven't used any other desktops other than these.

I ended a 30-years Windows streak BECAUSE of KDE Plasma 6 (among other reasons)

i3wm + xde.

MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,MINT 👏,

(mint cinnamon)

Used i3 and then sway almost a decade. When Plasma 6 arrived, I just wanted to try it out and it just kind of stuck to me. Lovely desktop.

I've ran GNOME for years until this month. Something randomly broke and then on fresh install the dark theme wasn't working correctly. Switched to KDE and everything looks and works perfectly. Think I'll hang out here for the foreseeable future.

Wrong. I don't like themes. I turn on dark mode, move the default panel up top and setup papirus icons and breeze white cursor theme. This is about as basic as it gets.

KDE on steamdeck, because it came preinstalled

Gnome on work-pc, because it came preinstalled

also gnome on notebook, because the multi-workspace thing works very nice OOTB in gnome

DE: XFCE

WM (Edit: compositor, you know what I mean): Hyprland, Wayfire (close second)

I really like how stable and polished XFCE feels, but I've got into tilling/dynamic window managers over the past few years so I just use Hyprland now. It's not as stable and whenever there's a bad commit and I can't be bothered looking into it I just use Wayfire and praise the spinning cylinder and rotating windows for a few weeks.

For out of the box looks, personally like KDE more than any of the others I've seen.

GNOME for sure

Gnome with a few extensions just feels very natural for me, but I've also just been using gnome for a long time

xfce with i3

Both ☝🏻

XFCE

preparing to make the jump to linux soon. Here for recommendations. I haven't been happy with windows since XP.

Gnome for me. I used to love kde and still do but fedora made me love gnome

Generally depends on the device. Overall, KDE for desktops, Gnome for laptops. Xfce on older devices.

MATE, any day.

My personal favorites in order from most to least favorite:

1. XFCE
2. KDE
3. Hyprland
4. Cinnamon
5. i3
6. CDE
7. LXQt
8. Deepin

Xfce just works, but I wanna switch back to kde someday

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