If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?

[xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml]

i have no idea not even sure what a netbook is

[Guest]

I think in going to switch from XFCE to KDE just because the XFCE merit of using the least amount of the resources is no longer a reality. I miss LXDE

[Guest]

Always wanted to like gnome but never could, and xfce is fine but I much prefer KDE, it is verry likely that I'll actually keep it till my pc breaks.

[drito@sh.itjust.works]

There is nothing better than Xfce, if you dont like the desktop, at least Xfce allows you to customize.
KDE seems interesting, but the last time i tried it, 10 years ago more or less, it was a bit buggy.

[non_burglar@lemmy.world]

I was just joking around, I hope you didn't take it too personally. I've been hearing a lot of KDE enthusiasm lately.

And xfce is great, but it has its pitfalls.

I also get excited about projects, I'm no different.

[Guest]

You owe KDE a second look if it's been that long.

[jimmy90@lemmy.world]

The most popular de is no good

Baffling

[jimmy90@lemmy.world]

The most popular de is no good

Baffling

[effortlesseffluvium@lemm.ee]

Use Mate. It is based on the old Gnome 2

[jamie_oliver@lemmy.world]

I'm running XFCE (but you could do KDE) on my intel Mac, you can get best of both worlds. I heard silicon is more difficult with Linux tho.

[Guest]

Small laptop. Think n 3000 intel

[recall519@lemm.ee]

I thought KDE was the popular choice to be honest. I feel like all the toolp newish OS are using KDE and the top old OS are using Gnome.

[Guest]

No optical drive type thing

[Guest]

KDE for sure. The modern versions look exactly like how I want a desktop environment to look out of the box, and they keep the full range of customizability that a desktop should, IMO, allow it's users to have. Which is something Windows just kept slowly getting rid of over the years.

I also prefer to have a taskbar that is ever present with a traditional start menu that's cleanly organized by category rather than the current full screen pop up "activities" search thing gnome does nowadays.

[lengau@midwest.social]

Much like Windows.

[semperverus@lemmy.world]

I was waiting for someone to say that.

I like that Mate is a thing, but like I said, I'm looking for something thats based on it but as if its had the same 20 years of enhancements everything else got.

The closest thing to that I've found is quite literally KDE. So I use KDE.

[hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org]

I currently use GNOME and would continue to but if it were a low spec machine, probably icewm or jwm.

y'all sure like KDE though

[jimmy90@lemmy.world]

Except people are forced to use windows. Not so with gnome

[lengau@midwest.social]

If you say so

[static_rocket@lemmy.world]

Sway still primarily counts as a WM + Compositor, but considering it has keymaps, autostart, and libinput config mechanisms embedded in it, I would say it borders a desktop environment.