If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?
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There must be something about GNOME in particular that some people love, and others hate.
GNOME is heavily opinionated.
As such it gets praise from people that share that opinion and gets hate from the people that do not. Many other DEs are much more configurable, giving a broader audience the possibility to adjust everything to their liking.
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DK (similar to BSPWM or i3/sway). I have zero interest in "DE's" like KDE or Gnome, or anything heavily reliant on using a mouse.
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Plasma for the last decade. Then probably XFCE, then Cinnamon.
I try Gnome every year or so, but every time I get pissed off with it within a few minutes and wipe it off my machine.
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Honestly, that defaulting to the Search field in the Save dialog when I'm trying to save something just gets me wild. It beggars the imagination why the developers think that's a reasonable thing to do and it colors my whole perception of the DE.
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GNOME because it works out of the box like GNOME
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This and shortcut for creating a subfolder doeesnt work in save dialogue.
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I haven't lasted long enough after the Search piss-off to notice the tomfoolery of that.
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Call me basic, but mint xfce. It’s light, customizable, and so damn stable. That’s all I really want. I love messing with other distros but this one is my baby
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It's actually possible! Thats amazing lol
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Plasma's not that old, it just came out a few years ago...
2008?
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KDE Plasma.
It has been great for gaming, adopting Wayland protocols at a faster rate than other DEs due in part thanks to Valve's contributions.
I freaking love GNOME & Adwaita, but I'll switch back when I deem it better than Plasma.
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LXQT. Why? Because: It is lightweight, consumes little resources, is quite customizable, and has full Ukrainian localization.
Maybe I'll switch to XFCE/MATE, but not if there are a lot of things not translated, or if the translation is worse than even Google Translate.
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My computer doesn't really break, I'm Ship of Theseus-ing it regularly.
Apart from that, the only one among the normal window based ones that has felt like it respects my will to configure stuff in ways that feel right to me has been KDE Plasma.
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I'll stay on XFCE until I die ... or until my Hyprland config is finished. Whichever comes first.
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I was team Gnome before Gnome 3 came out. Nowadays I don't mind it for auxiliary computers that I don't interact with regularly. It has a huge community behind it and that is a quality in its own right. But since MATE never really managed to become a worthy successor to Gnome 2 I guess I'm team Plasma now. I got it "forced" on me by my beloved Steam Deck and I can definitely see why Valve went for it.
Currently I'm experimenting with Hyprland but that is definitely too early to call it my forever pick, so Plasma it is.
