For me its KDE.
Vanilla Gnome. It’s simple/boring, and I like that. It seems like most people that like Gnome don’t care that it’s not a poweruser DE, and aren’t excited to talk about it either.
Gnome with pop_os tiling window manager
GNOME, with a little bit of extension customisability!
KDE is love, KDE is life
For aesthetics: Budgie, with Cinnamon a close second For simplicity and speed: XFCE
KDE
KDE Plasma on desktop
Cinnamon on (older lower spec) laptop
Default GNOME (Wayland), it just works
KDE sets a really high bar with all the packages and extensibility. Almost everything (not including the lesser known and used packages) is feature-packed and
just works
. I really don’t know any other software that constantly amazes me like KDE.KDE if it was less buggy.
I used to only use KDE or KDE plasma with i3 but after using fedora I’ve fallen hard for Gnome and the design philosophy of the project.
BSPWM and Polybar because I am too lazy to figure out eww and I use KDE as a backup in case anything breaks lol
Me exactly. I’m totally definitely for sure going to try out all the more complicated DEs and widget tools (eww, maybe AwesomeWM if I’m willing to learn Lua or Hyprland if I’m willing to try Wayland)… Someday
In the meantime, my BSPWM + Polybar setup is there and works while I procrastinate on trying anything else.
KDE for my main and XFCE for my lower powered systems or VM’s
This is what I do too. I’ve been considering switching to XFCE everywhere, because why use more resources, when XFCE does the job insert The Office “why waste time say lot words …”-gif
Pop! _OS’s Cosmic Version of GNOME (regular GNOME kinda stinks) but KDE is also pretty great. Can’t wait for COSMIC DE. I’m sure that one will rock itself up to the number 1 spot really quickly.
KDE + Latte dock is what I use. Very simple and minimalistic setup with no widgets.