Wow lots of info here, thanks! See, I know nothing about window or tiling managers and not necessarily know if I need to go that deep, but maybe! So the two more random desktops I’m interested in are probably cutefish and deepin oh and paperde, but I cannot find that on any distro so it must not be maintained. Sorta the same deal with cutefish, though I know it actually IS available. DDE is one I’m on the fence about. Just the bad security issues I’ve always read has kept me from deepin, but figure the environment is safer? Lol and again, it looks vastly different on each distro.
Sooo basically two things I dont understand. You said you can get any DE on any distro,but thats not true ime. I’ve searched numerous distros repos or packages and some distros had DEs that others did not. Also, why does it seem like so many desktops vary so much in appearance. How do I know what each looks like on each distro? Because I’ve found a lot of variance and I dont know enough about the inner workings of DEs lol thanks man