Linux

fvwm3 on most systems, wmaker on a few, recently trying out kde for potential wayland migration

Been on i3wm for 3 4 years now I guess. Also work with sway on some systems.

you can actually see and use my config

https://codeberg.org/alirezaalavi/dotfiles

I'm running Niri on Debian.

Plasma 6.8 dev

Plasma, with the taskbar on the side, and 15 virtual desktops.

Stock GNOME. No extensions.

Arch linux + niti + dms, amazing!

Sway, me like simple.

herbstluftwm

Shout out to keynav which has allowed me to start using Waterfox again.

Niri

WM: i3, sway, also playing around with dwm

DE: Xfce

I just need basic functionality, and most tiling WMs are fairly similar. i3 vs. Sway is basically the Xorg vs. Wayland question. I like dwm for its absolute minimalism and the fact that you configure it by editing or patching C and recompiling.

For fun? Niri + Noctalia.

For actually using the computer efficiently? KDE Plasma.

GNOME

KDE Plasma. It's the most feature rich "just works" DE there is. GNOME doesn't even have fucking maximize and minimize buttons by default without adding them via GNOME Tweaks.

I used to be a Cinnamon/Linux Mint lover, but their slow implementation of Wayland, Window Scaling, and certain other annoyances like their split NetworkManager GUI between GNOME's UI and the native NetworkManager UI made me switch.

Using kde rn because its easy to use.

I will spend some time to get a tiling wm eventually. Minimal resource efficiency as well as brain efficiency is very apealing to me.

MangoWM (MangoWC formerly) ... started using it when Hyprland didn't have side scrolling like Niri, and Niri only as a scrolling manager and couldn't do the master stack. Mango being the best of both worlds, I riced it really well and stuck with it.

Cinnamon. I tried KDE but I didn't like it. I saw a video where someone customised Cinnamon through settings and extensions so I've done a bit of that.

i grew up with gnome, switched to plasma because i used a steam deck as my main computer for a few years. im just so used to the workflow in plasma, and while i would really love to switch to hyprland, its just too big of a hassle to set it up and learn everything. luckily i found out about krohnkite, so i can at least have some tiling in plasma, but not in the way hyprland does it. i would love it, if it split the focused window

KDE Plasma all the way, on the desktop, the laptops and the two set top boxes.

I am currently using two on two different distros on two different computers. Cinnamon and KDE Plasma.

Sway

KDE Plasma because I'm basic and I wanna get stuff done 👍

KDE. I don't even do much to customize it. I think it looks pretty good out of the box.

Sway and Gnome

The latter is mostly for other family members. But I like both.

Cosmic. It's pretty good now but sometimes it feels a little slow.

Enlightenment DE

Niri + Noctalia shell. I find the scrolling tiles to be excellent for my workflow, and the desktop shell feels nice and polished. Plus, Niri supports the Wayland zwlr_layer_shell, which means I can finally use Wallpaper Engine; there's even a Noctalia plugin for it.

Niri has been great for gaming and streaming, so be sure to check it out if you haven't.

I would be hesitant to use anything but KWin with Plasma. They were designed together as a set (like Mutter and Gnome), and I suspect replacing the WM would be no small task.

I use KDE. I like how easy it is to customize pretty much everything. Like, if I want everything to be green, I can make everything green and no one can stop me.

i3

With alacritty, qutebrowser, neovim and LibreWolf. I use my custom dmenu-based utilities for things like launching apps, locking (with slock), controlling (ie. postponing :D) redshift and music player and opening bookmarks, links and searches. Thunar is the most DE-like app I use but being comfortable with Bash i use Thunar just for certain tasks like organizing files like photos. For quick text edits, I sometimes prefer Mousepad. For screenshots it's slop+maim.

I don't "rice", I just set some color schemes years ago and use simple wallpaper (which I rarely see.) And keep everything as minimal and out of way as possible.

(I don't care about Wayland unless I'm somehow forced to. I mean, some of my utils depend on X11 for things like clipboard access but I suppose it could be fixed easily nowadays. However X11 works fine for me so if it ain't broken...)

KDE Plasma. It's clean, fast, and just works.

hyprland

Currently using gnome with lots of extensions. Ive tried many DEs but gnome always feels like home. I also like kde a lot but there something about qt that feels so amateur and unpolished, and I can't get steam to run on kde out of the box, with gnome it just works. Also the times I've used kde I always end up replicating the gnome layout so I just decided to stick with gnome in the long run

Cosmic.

Openbox was my favourite, but there's not a really good Wayland alternative yet so I've stuck with KDE for years.

I wanted to try Cosmic so I went to the source with popos and it's really a good time. I haven't used a Deb/Ubuntu base since the Crunchbang days but this is good and it seems there is a Cosmic update pushed through every week.

KDE Plasma, as it’s most Windows-like and it has lots of cool widgets to add to your desktop Windows 7-style.

I’ve also tried Gnome, but I found it confusing and honestly a bit annoying. Not being able to properly minimise like I’m used to just really throws me off. I do think the visual style is well-designed, though.

I’ve tried Cinnamon as well. I thought it looked a bit too cheap for my taste, at least by default on Mint.

sway. I tried hyprland, but it was unable to switch between different maximized windows (monocle layout). There was a way, but it triggered a resize on every window switch, which was slow and annoying. I don't know if it's perhaps been fixed since then.

Cinnamon. It's like a combination of kde and gnome.

I am sorry if my English is bad.

Xfce, specifically because I like the Chicago95 theme.