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Alch_Fox ,
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Switched to GNOME a couple of months ago from KDE. Very much love the function of GNOME, but still prefer the customizability of KDE.

atetulo ,

KDE

It’s like a swiss-army knife of DEs.

I try to make it look like Windows 7.

OddFed ,
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A person saying ‘they had us in the first half not gonna lie’

Unkend ,

Mate i had far less issues with it.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I recently switched back to GNOME after a few years on KDE, mostly because of Wayland support. I honestly don’t care much about the DE, provided it gets out of my way. I used to use a Tiling WM, so I may give a Wayland tiling WM a shot.

thanksforallthefish ,

Hmm I am using Wayland on KDE for 6-12months with no problem, why did you need to swap to Gnome to get it working ?

Just curious, no tribal warfare intended (the gnome vs kde fight is a bit silly to me)

sugar_in_your_tea ,

IDK, Wayland was super unstable for me on KDE, even on my AMD GPU (RX 6650XT). It wouldn’t launch at all through SDDM (black screen, and I checked other TTYs), and it would lock up quickly (maybe a kernel panic?, I couldn’t even switch TTYs) when I launched through the command line. I used NVIDIA before that, and couldn’t get KDE to launch at all on Wayland (GNOME did, but was buggy), so I used KDE on X until I replaced my GPU.

I honestly didn’t look much into it, but launching GNOME through GDM worked perfectly, so I didn’t feel the need to debug further.

My goal was to use Wayland, and I didn’t particularly care which DE did it. I have a slight preference for KDE, but I honestly don’t use enough DE features to care too much, I just want something to launch apps and then go away. As long as it has a decent terminal with tmux, can switch windows, and has a clock with a calendar, that’s enough for me.

thanksforallthefish ,

Interesting. I’m using the 6600 on arch kde wayland with no problems. I wonder what caused your issues.

Anyway as you say if you’ve got a working setup great.

electric_nan ,

Cinnamon. It’s comfy.

whs ,

GNOME 2. I tried 3 for a year or two and the task bar crashes or lack the very basic feature of swapping window position. It’s an external plugin so I don’t expect it to be fixed in any year soon. Then I realize GNOME 2 was perfect before they ruined it in 3 so now I’ve been on MATE desktop for 4 years now. I think the new team is too small to catch up on any modern changes (webp support is lacking, and no wayland) and nothing I could do can fix that (minor development work on build system, donation) but I’d still accept a perfect 2010 era desktop over 2023 desktop that doesn’t feel right after a decade of development.

Caboose12000 ,

maybe this is a hot take but I just really like vanilla KDE. I don’t even customize that much, I just think it looks and feels nice out of the box

Skyhighatrist ,

I’m currently using KDE Plasma with i3. I like it fine. I love i3, and KDE works to tie everything together and add consistency for theming. Previously I was using i3 on XFCE, that was easier to set up. Plasma tends to require special configuration to make it play nice with i3, but once you’re over that hump it makes for a pretty decent combination.

hottari ,

Gnome 44. Simple, familiar and all my extensions work!

zzx ,

I use i3, I love it

blkpws ,

Not a DE but I love it too!!

flakusha ,

sway - stable and productive. Hyprland - beautiful, but performance is worse. i3 - same as sway, but sometimes better for legacy X11 stuff or applications that are still buggy at Wayland

avidamoeba ,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

Ubuntu’s GNOME.

paolabonacini ,
@paolabonacini@mastodon.uno avatar

@governorkeagan Xfce first and then Cinnamon. Xfce is more flexible than Cinnamon, which is solid.

Gnome, which looks so nice, requires too many extensions for my taste. So it is not for me.

I tried Plasma many times. It is a mess with all the options (I don't know if they are going to fix this in the next releases) and whenever I tried it there were always some small annoying little bugs. They are changing the release cycle, so maybe in the future these problems will become more rare.

captain_aggravated ,
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For me, from most to least favorite, it goes:

Cinnamon

Mate

KDE

xfce

Bash-only; no GUI

doing my math homework by counting on my toes

Losing three fingers in a table saw accident

GNOME

Edit to add: I love the “one newline in the editor is no newlines in the published comment.” The internet isn’t getting worse by the minute at all.

njordomir ,

I found GNOME in my early days, Cinnamon and Budgie after GNOME went “convergence,” and KDE ever since. A nice thing about Linux is we have some variety so you can pick something that will let you work/play your way.

There are other great options like XFCE and MATE.

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