Linux

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Xfce, and Cinnamon. You can't force me to choose just one.

I use XFCE. If their Wayland support isn't ready when openSUSE Tumbleweed eliminates support for x11, I'm not sure what I'll go to.

Difficult. Paperwm/ Niri has the best workflow.

I am looking forward to set niri as compositor on cosmic.

True people only use i3 or the-other-i3-for-wayland

/s, of course. But still my personal choice

Whatever I can hit the super key and type what program I want. If it can open a browser steam or dark table, the rest doesn't matter much. I was on crunchbang++ then popOS then fedora now I'm on arch with hyprland

i'm already doing this with gnome lol.

if my computer was older, probably xfce.

The one I'm using right now of course!

I used Ratpoison for well over a decade, and only replaced it with sway once I had a new machine and figured it was time to try Wayland. Apparently that's some 4-5 years ago already.

Xfce

The amount of not KDE answers here surprises me. Y'all a bunch of nerds [endearing]

it's probably gonna be plasma6 by a hair over cinnamon on a rolling distribution. as much as people shit on manjaro here and on that other site, it has never broke on me--whether i update constantly or let it go 2-3 months between them.

but if the de and the underlying os are magically compatible, and those and programs kept up to date, never obsolete, and new ones appear for it as needed or desired... then sorry, it won't be linux... i'm going back to something like 95osr2, 98se or w2k.

Not a DE, but I've been using sway for around 5 years now, and I have no intention of moving away from it unless something really bad happens. I love using it, and it's been behaving perfectly all tgis time.

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.

Call me basic, but mint xfce. It’s light, customizable, and so damn stable. That’s all I really want. I love messing with other distros but this one is my baby

I'm using PopOS Cosmic alpha (not based on Gnome) on my new laptop and like it a lot so far. It has a few rough edges, but nothing I'd switch to something else over. (In fact, I did use the Gnome version of Cosmic until my previous laptop broke.)

DK (similar to BSPWM or i3/sway). I have zero interest in "DE's" like KDE or Gnome, or anything heavily reliant on using a mouse.

I've been using spectrwm for over a decade https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm and have no plans to change

My current desktop is xmonad + xfce in no-desktop mode. Almost no configuration in xmonad, all the stuff like monitor layout and mouse props is handled by xfce. And yes my laptop that I used it on for 6-7 years is now broken (ish) so I've already unlocked this acheivement.

I do feel slightly guilty about not moving to wayland, but I'm not sure how that would improve my experience at all. I did hear xfce is almost there on wayland, so maybe I can move to sway + xfce on wayland at some point.

Probably either KDE or NsCDE, I always seem to come back to those

I'll stay on XFCE until I die ... or until my Hyprland config is finished. Whichever comes first.