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Desktop environment, and OS in general is just something you eventually find one you like, and there's no need to change. It's GNOME for me, it just works in a way that doesn't get on my way and that's all it needs to be

KDE ftw

KDE is my favorite, but I'm excited to try Cosmic once it's a little farther along.

I also love Cinnamon, not because it looks great, or has a ton of customizablity, but because it is so stable. It's been the best #JustWorks DE in my experience.

Those are the only two I use regularly. Xfce is nice once you get it customized, but it's kind of a pain to get configured. I don't have much use for sophisticated tiling, so tiling window managers are just curiosities to me. I've played with i3, Sway, Hyprland, and a few others over the years.

I wish I had a use case for them, but alas, all my day to day needs are handled just fine with basic Window snapping, tmux, kitty tabs, and occasionally using a second virtual desktop.

I tried lots of DE's when distros started switching to GNOME 3.

Now I just run Xfce on everything.

the first DE I used on Linux was cinnamon and I was like “wow, this is great, everything makes sense to me out of the box”

And then I tried Gnome and was incredibly put off by it, like “why the hell is this over here, this layout is strange to me. Why are all these unconventional features on by default, this is very annoying.”

And then I tried KDE and I was like “wow, this is great and everything makes sense to me out of the box, also there’s all these features and options, I don’t know what they do, but i don’t have to interact with them if I don’t want to.”

I’ve used GNOME and I’ve used KDE. Don’t have a problem with GNOME but KDE is just how I like my desktop experience to act. I am intrigued about Cosmic though.

I quite like KDE Plasma on my steam deck, but on my desktops I always use XFCE

I've yet to see anything that compares to kde, and I just don't understand why so many distros default to gnome!

I've been using KDE since ver 2.something.
I like the idea of tiling window managers.
But I'm old.
I'm set in my ways.
I don't want to get used to new things.

I'm waiting for Cosmic to mature

I've been using Linux for twenty years. I didn't use KDE until they declared Plasma 5 ready for primetime. (I hated Plasma 4, and didn't like the look and feel of KDE 3.5 at all)

Since hopping on with Plasma 5 I have absolutely no interest in anything else. I love KDE Plasma and it just keeps getting better.

That's me in OP.

Still waiting for XFCE‘s Wayland support. Until then Plasma it is

I just want a conventional desktop paradigm that feels relatively integrated. For almost a decade I used Cinnamon until I found myself really wanting Wayland. For the past 5 years or so, I have used GNOME. It's clean, and with a few tweaks it meets my needs.

I would love to give GNOME an honest try, but there are so many ways in which it feels like it's actively working against me. In KDE I can for example create as many panels as I want on as many monitors as I want. On GNOME? There's an extension to put the panel on another monitor, but then you can't use the dock. I guess the GNOME developers don't use multiple monitors? I mean you can't even set different wallpapers on different monitors without a third party application.

As for Niri, Hyprland and all that... Yeah, they're cool, but I'm too old nowadays. I just want shit to work, even though I do miss some of the functions that exist e.g. on Hyprland that doesn't exist in KDE. But on the other hand, the developer of Hyprland is an asshole, so I wouldn't really want to promote or use the project anyway.

How I feel about gnome

I'm interested in other DEs, i swear! I just don't use them, or like them!

Plasma is great. But it's missing an important feature. Apps, such as backup or sync, cannot navigate to network shares, to use as a backup target. Dolphin sees the shares ok, but its important to backup. Windows lets apps select network targets. Plasma should too.

I've been using kde for years and really enjoyed the fact that it was simple and worked out of the box.

Recently I heard about niri, I had a look and thought it was cool. I set it up with a desktop environment around it and in less than 1 hour I had a working de. I've been using it a couple weeks now on my work computer and I have to say that I'm really enjoying it, I feel it makes many operations much simpler and moving around different windows is very easy.

I use two screens, and I really like that I can have the applications bar on both on them, which was one major gripe I had with plasma.

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I've enjoyed KDE since Mandrake 6. The control you get to have as a user is amazing. Thought to be honest, I really change very little. But the Cube! I will die for that Cube.

But I have used probably every DE that runs on Linux one time or another. Each has its own charms and quirks. While my laptop lives comfortably with Fedora 43 Kinonite, the cheap mini desktop I'm using right now currently has COSMIC on it. And to be honest, as much as I like LXDE, dnfdragoria as it's package manager, someone at Fedora needs to take dnfdragoria out back and launch it into the sun. COMIC is far lighter feeling than I thought would be. I will live with it for a while I think.

I went from Gnome 2 to Mate, and switched to Plasma last year. Can't see myself moving away anytime soon XD

KDE's absolutely excellent, but if you need every little kilobyte RAM, go Sway. Sway—It's Technically Graphical ™

Try danklinux.com for an easy Niri install. Thank me later.

i have tried kde and i cannot understand how so many people love it and hate gnome

I really like tiling window managers, but plasma is so much easier to deal with