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.
i interpreted it as the user's first DE was gnome :)
Yeah, that would work.
KDE Plasma. It works for me, and it has enough features so that I can adapt it to my workflow as my workflow changes.
Let the chant begin
KDE! KDE! KDE! Death to foot fetish Death to mice Death to everybody who dont rice
KDE! KDE! KDE!
As a partaker of anime I know that being older isn't usually an advantage.
Also KDE wins. Fight me.
Hyprland
Cinnamon
I ended a 30-years Windows streak BECAUSE of KDE Plasma 6 (among other reasons)
i3wm + xde.
I'm using herbstluftwm and am happiest with it, but spent years on i3, almost a year in bspwm, and a hot minute on sway. All after years of mostly KDE, some Gnome, and a few years (concurrently w/ Linux) on Macs from work.
Any tiling WM over any DE. I'd go back to i3 before choosing either Gnome or KDE. The one exception would be a fully feature-complete NeXTSTEP clone. I'd switch to that in a heartbeat. Not OpenSTEP, not Windowmaker; NS was beautiful, functional, fully integrated in all aspects - like MacOS, but without the dumbed-down idiocracy.
KDE was first.
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.
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.
Do you mean pseudo?
Lol yeah I'm dumb and tired
"sudo MacOS" sounds like a legit way to describe "gnome+ubuntu"
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.
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
Hyprland for now, but I'll probably switch to COSMIC, once it's available on NixOS
XFCE
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.
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.
Both ☝🏻
There's three in that picture. XFCE is the one in back.
That's their logo!? I've used XFCE for years and never knew...
Thats some major street cred for XFCE:
XFCE - we're so minimalist you don't even know we had a logo.
In fairness, I only recognized it because xubuntu (XFCE based Ubuntu) uses the mouse themed logo.
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.
preparing to make the jump to linux soon. Here for recommendations. I haven't been happy with windows since XP.
Linux Mint
Fedora KDE. Just be sure to enable 3rd party repos (very easy and quick job, just a google search away).
Gnome for me. I used to love kde and still do but fedora made me love 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.
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.
GNOME for sure
none/none
Found the TempleOS user
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
I daily drive Window managers but occasionally I also check out Desktop environments. Here is my personal preference -
DE
WM
plasma
I'll be switching to COSMIC DE as soon as it gets into the beta phase.
GNOME. Also, trying to use as many apps as possible that follows its guidelines.
Gnome with a few extensions just feels very natural for me, but I've also just been using gnome for a long time
Xfce just works, but I wanna switch back to kde someday
Hint: :q!
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