cosmic

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.

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

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.

My DE choices:

• KDE Plasma – It’s pretty, it’s customizable. Workflow is customizable
• XFCE – Honestly I consider XFCE to be like Plasma’s sibling, in that its workflow is also very customizable and there is a lot of space for theming, but is lighter and acts nicer on weaker hardware

I tried Gnome and I just hate it? It needs a lot of fennagling to look and act in a way I find enjoyable. Cinnamon is eeeeeeeeehhhhh.

WM-wise, I played with Hyprland and I3WM, but tiling WMs aren’t for me. They just aren’t. For what convenience I gained from being able to use Super+something to do basically everything, I don’t enjoy the workflow.

I also used Wayfire for a bit – Writing my own configuration file and customizing everything IS fun, but like… Nah?

I’ll be switching to COSMIC DE as soon as it gets into the beta phase.

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

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

(mint cinnamon)

I currently use Plasma 6 on both my laptop and my desktop, but XFCE has a special place in my heart, due to it being right in the middle between being lightweight with resources and still staying usable for a buffoon like me.

AwesomeWM

GNOME for sure

Let the chant begin

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

KDE! KDE! KDE!

I switched to Niri recently, and find it much better than most of the wlroot tiling options.

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.