I've used gnome for years, about a month ago I decided to give KDE a try on my old spare laptop. Two days later it was on my desktop and work laptop. I am loving KDE.
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Debian/KDE
Cinnamon is the best
TDE (for those who haven't encountered it before, the Trinity Desktop Environment forked from KDE3 more than a decade ago). It might not be the flashiest or the newest, but it has a decent selection of features and applications, and presents a traditional desktop environment whose interface doesn't get changed for the sake of change. In other words, it stays out of the way and lets me get things done.
(If I'd liked Gnome 2 better than KDE 3 rather than vice-versa, I probably would have gone for MATE instead.)
Hyprland + bemenu. Minimalistic, very little overhead, but still a pretty boi.
I am on pop is for my home desktop. I like the built in tiling manager. Ubuntu for work. Might give nix or kde a go next.
I cannot but mention xmonad wm with my own configurations
I really like KDE, but I’ve been daily driving Gnome since version 40. Insanely polished and I really like the workflow of everything. I do wish they were faster in implementing stuff like VRR though.
Xfce on work desktop, gnome works well with gestures at home on my laptop. Will be changing to kde when I get a new machine at work!
I've been using QTile for probably a year now. It's not perfect, but I like the tiled windowing and I know python.
KDE if I have performance to spare. XFCE if I am running this in a container on my phone.
Um....none.
barless dwl, love the simplicity
Hyprland + bemenu. Minimalistic, very little overhead, but still a pretty boi.
Mine is a combination of Sway + i3bar. Stick with it since I downlosded Pop!_OS
EXWM (Emacs X windows manager)
all it lacks is a good editor
(j/k, I've settled on Cosmic on Pop for the last few years, and now I'm so lazy, I barely update it)
i3 on my laptop, gnome on my gaming rig (cuz wayland)
sway + bemenu for building my own utilities
btw what distro are my fellow sway users on? i'm loving the control i get over what i install with gentoo
how is everyone interacting with audio, networking, bluetooth?
is anyone used herbsluftwm for low powered CPU here?
i3 counts, right? I have always been a keyboard oriented user and a big part of what drove me from Windows is them breaking or changing the hotkeys I used regularly. To me it is the perfect "you have control, this is your device, it works and looks how you want." wm
Vanilla Gnome Shell. I know it's heresy, but I've been using it since beta and I actually enjoy the work flow.
FVWM.
bspwm + sxhkd, for years. Based on the Manjaro config at first, today it's my own setup. Even convinced may family. The best!
@fugepe I use Ubuntu but, is KDE easy to pick up? Just getting into Linux my self.
kde
@fugepe Wow, not a lot of replies are saying Gnome, but there's a lot more XFCE than I thought I'd see
It may be a sort of shy Tory effect. People don't volunteer that they run Gnome because it's seen as the default mainstream option, but if someone uses xmonad, they're going to tell you about it.