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OddFed ,
@OddFed@feddit.de avatar

My favs:

  • (probably) Cosmic
  • GNOME
  • Plasma
UraniumBlazer , (edited )

In my (and my friend’s) experience, KDE has been notoriously unreliable. We faced issues like the wifi icon just disappearing randomly, the time thingy disappearing, etc.

I have been using GNOME for around five years now (I temporarily switched to KDE 2 yrs back and reswitched to GNOME 3 months later). Till now, GNOME has been extremely stable for me. The only issue that I experienced was a memory (although that was fixed in subsequent updates).

Hence, based on this experience, if you’re looking for stability, I would highly recommend GNOME. However, if u’r looking for more customization at the cost of less stability, KDE ain’t bad.

dukatos ,

KDE is very stable. You are using some bad, 2 years old version because Ubuntu LTS cycle.

UraniumBlazer ,

I don’t think so. I was using Garuda at the time, which is based on Arch.

blkpws ,

Garuda has some customized KDE desktop, I suppose you need to use the plain theme and look, that KDE gives support for. Garuda added many extras and some extra pannels… a bit messy.

UraniumBlazer ,

I see… Maybe I’ll give KDE a try again the next time I’ll distro hop!

WallK ,

I’m now full time on sway

Productivity is through the roof!

13 ,
@13@masto.bg avatar

@governorkeagan My preferred Desktop environment is Cinnamon. I used to prefer swaywm but it's not a complete DE.

Bratwurstboy ,

Gnome, sometimes XFCE on older hardware.

Sprite ,
@Sprite@lemmy.ml avatar

Used to be a big XFCE fan, but I was experiencing icon scaling bug which made all my icons pixelized and hard to read. I solely use KDE now. I used to like Gnome, but it feels like they’re working their hardest to make the DE as bad as possible for power users and make it look like a nasty mobile UI.

noddy ,

Gnome. But I use 3 extensions (dash to dock, desktop icons and appindicators) and the adw-gtk3 theme so GTK3 apps looks the same as GTK4/libadwaita apps.

jw13 ,

GNOME. I currently use it without any extensions, but sometimes use “Blur my shell” for the visual effect.

GNOME “just works” and looks extremely polished and consistent. It gives the application the maximum amount of screen real estate. The keyboard shortcuts are great. It’s very power-user friendly IMO.

zabi94 ,

Personally I’ve been on KDE for a few years, I love the way I can customize my workflow, from the default apps to the panels layout. The KDE team has made fantastic progress since I’ve started using it, and it’s now very stable and feature rich. I’m very excited for the upcoming Plasma 6

And as a reminder to everybody, please donate if you can, no matter what software you use. Especially if you’ve been using that DE for a while. Open source projects like these are always in need of funding!

bastion ,

Every time I hear this, I’m tempted to try KDE again, but every time I do, I run into stability issues.

I really like the customizability, particularly being able to set up the workflow you want. But then I hit stability issues and that just kills it for me - pun only somewhat intentional.

zabi94 ,

I guess it’s a hit or miss depending on the hardware. I’ve never had a single stability issue with plasma ever since I started using it

bastion ,

I doubt it’s a hardware issue. That said, fair enough re: experiences may vary.

luky ,

hyprland currently but maybe switching to awesomewm or qtile. it takes effort to configure/learn them so idk if you are open to try them at the beginning. or if you prefer a conventional environment like gnome, kde, xfce…

shrugal , (edited )

Gnome. It looks simple and elegant, is easy and intuitive to use, and everything I need is either built in or available as an extension.

The one caveat is that you probably shouldn’t update it right on day one of a new version release, because usually some extension devs need a few more days to update their stuff. My distro (Fedora) always releases new versions a few months after Gnome does, so this works out perfectly.

MonkeRider ,

KDE and Budgie

fcuks ,

I love the swipey gesture workflow on gnome on the laptop

java ,

KDE, I enjoy the whole ecosystem both visually and functionally.

iHUNTcriminals ,

Blorp

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