I’d probably pick KDE. I use Gnome on almost every machine, but Gnome makes weird decisions, and I assume one day I won’t like one of them. KDE always seems to get better and add more options. I can make KDE work like practically any other DE, including Gnome.
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Cinnamon, that's what I'm used to
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
I currently use GNOME and would continue to but if it were a low spec machine, probably icewm or jwm.
y'all sure like KDE though 🤢
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I've only tried KDE and i'm pretty happy with it. I dunno why I'd want a creepy foot gnome on my computer, and I don't really know of any others by name yet so.... I'mma pick KDE
The amount of not KDE answers here surprises me. Y'all a bunch of nerds [endearing]
I think in going to switch from XFCE to KDE just because the XFCE merit of using the least amount of the resources is no longer a reality. I miss LXDE
Sway for a laptop, Plasma for desktop.
Had you have asked me a few weeks ago, I probably would have said Sway for both,.or maybe Gnome for the desktop... But I decided to check out KDE again for the first time in like 20 years, and while it's still kind of a hot mess it has come a long way.
Fluxbox.
Technically, not a DE, but a WM...which makes me the DE, I guess....
Twm, I'll extend it as needed.
I just don't like KDE and am not a big fan of stock Gnome either but the PopOS version with COSMIC features plus the Dash to Panel extension make it pretty useable
Fedora Gnome. In my head it’s Linux.
Gnome. It looks so much more modern, but I would like a layout like Plasmas more than the gnome one
Herbstluftwm with dmenu. Just a windows manager. I've gotten used to using the command line for things I used to rely on a DE for.
I have literally been using the same build of dwm as my desktop env since 2007.