Linux

Gnome. Very sane defaults and flow, customizable. Also fully navigable both via mouse and keyboard, which works great for me since I navigate my system and apps using both almost equally. It's gotten hate for relying on extensions, but for me it makes it feel modular and customizable.

KDE Plasma. Unless you're a keyboard heavy user, there's no reason not choosing it. It's the overall winner hands down.

Plasma.

The first reason I prefer it is that when internet becomes unavailable while connected to the router, it changes the icon. The second is that is settings easy and KRunner is very handy. The third is that it looks cool for me, especially while using Latte Dock. It's transperancy effects are very impressing. The fourth is the integration of server-side-decoration for Qt apps (with Latte Dock).

TL;DR, the above reasons are completely based on look & feel and ease of use

Gnome ~~3~~ 40 by far

KDE Plasma, it's been nothing but a great experience, it's a beast of an environment. Plus, its accompanying software ecosystem makes it 10x better.

I really enjoyed the Deepin Desktop Environment.

My personal choice is MATE Desktop Environment

XFCE

GNOME 40 <3

Sway for myself, GNOME for my friends :D

I've tried GNOME, XFCE, LXDE, just to see what they're like, but I always find myself coming back to KDE.

I've tried XFCE, Cinnamon, Budgie and Plasma. All are great, but I think I like the latter the most. The amount of functionality, customization and community support is amazing.
I'm always open to try new stuff though

XFCE is my go-to when I need to choose a DE (but tbh I'm always on a tiling WM so I don't really know if another DE would suits my needs better).

Lubuntu 18.04 on my old laptop. Fast and simple to use, but there aren't many customizations.

I've been using XFCE with BSPWM as my window manager and I love it

i3 on x11, but I guess that's not a Desktop Environment technically.

From all DEs I've ever tried, only Cinnamon met my needs and requirements - highly customizable (almost limitless) and also this is the only DE that can run apps from any other DE whereas the other desktops can't brag about the same.

I doubt that usability is the same for every user. Some may find KDE the most usable, others XFCE and so on...

And Gnome gets a rather bad review, I'm not sure if that's fair.

I personally don't use a desktop environment at all, just a window manager.

Trinity DE and GNOME.

Lxde...old computer

My choice is Mate since it was forked from Gnome 2. I tried many other like Trinity, KDE, Gnome 3, DWM, i3, XFCE and more, but I always fall back to the classic design of Mate.

So much wrong in this article I cringed all the way back to 2010..

MATE

XFCE for my PCs that have limited resources MInt for my daily driver. GNOME and KDE are good but I’m too old skool to change my ways now.

I use Trinity DE from Q4OS. It's very light, so it's good for older pcs or laptops. It fits me very well because I want something that doesn't eat my computer resources away. But the downside is that it's not very customizable as other DE. Well, maybe not yet. If you prefer performance over looks, I think it can be a good choice for you.

@SudoDnfDashY I actually really like GNOME, it's the most polished desktop out there with the most complete set of apps designed for it. I like the libadwaita look and feel. It is a bit slow on older machines, though.

LXDE is my second choice - I like the modularity and the efficiency on older machines, but I'm afraid it won't survive the death of GTK 2, or GTK 3 down the road. KDE is third, since it's quite polished, more customizable, and oddly lightweight, but also buggy at times and its first-party apps are inconsistent in design (though I guess that's a problem with Windows too, lol).

Cinnamon. Only thing I miss is wayland

I like xfce. As a former GNOME 2 user it's familiar to me, I set it up the way I like it and it doesn't change often.

I was on XFCE for a year or so, then switched to GNOME around this time last year. Last week I just switched to Sway which I've been super happy with!

This article is far too brief, providing no explanation of the ratings (how different are the speed ratings of 10 for LXDE and 2 for GNOME?) and the blurbs offer the same information as the first two sentences of the websites for each DE (or Wikipedia).

If this intended for newcomers to Linux who are unsure which DE to use, the comparisons to Windows XP/7/10 and MacOS make sense, but then, why include number ratings? Newbies likely won't know how to weigh those factors. And if it is for those looking to choose a DE, where are the photos showing us the default set-up and a configured version? Eye candy is a vague, unqualified quality. People have different tastes. Pictures would fix this.

And to pick apart the short blurbs discussing each DE, is there so little positive to find in XFCE that praising its speed is the go-to, despite giving LXDE a higher rating in that respect? And what about GNOME is unorthodox? The information given rates it as simple and clean, but slow, unintuitive, and difficult to customize. Is there any reason to use GNOME? What is simple and clean about it?

If this article were framed as a personal blog post recounting one's experience with each environment, containing personally meaningful numeric ratings, I would be less critical. However, titling an article What Is The Best Desktop Environment For You without giving me more than surface level introductions and relying on equating them to Windows and Mac renders this cheap clickbait. I level these critiques as a newcomer who expected to learn something while reading this.

XFCE for my PCs that have limited resources MInt for my daily driver. GNOME and KDE are good but I’m too old skool to change my ways now.