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

[aksdb@lemmy.world]

KDE is one of the main reasons for me to use Linux. I immensely like the performance, silence and battery lifetime of MacBooks. But if I have to work with anything but KDE, it's not worth it for me. The only thing OSX does better than basically any other desktop out there, is the ability to drag whole virtual screen between monitors.

[Guest]

Gnome. It looks so much more modern, but I would like a layout like Plasmas more than the gnome one

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

can you exemplify a few of the things you miss?

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

i'm already doing this with gnome lol.

if my computer was older, probably xfce.

[jubilantjaguar@lemmy.world]

Bro doesn't need DE to watch videos. Bro doesn't need DE to do anything.

[neatobuilds@lemmy.today]

Whatever I can hit the super key and type what program I want. If it can open a browser steam or dark table, the rest doesn't matter much. I was on crunchbang++ then popOS then fedora now I'm on arch with hyprland

[Guest]

Cinnamon, that's what I'm used to

[hperrin@lemmy.ca]

I’d probably pick KDE. I use Gnome on almost every machine, but Gnome makes weird decisions, and I assume one day I won’t like one of them. KDE always seems to get better and add more options. I can make KDE work like practically any other DE, including Gnome.

[xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml]

Gnome but thats because im a big time laptop user. The way i use my laptops works really well on gnome. I hide the top bar, and have whatever im doing taking up the entire screen, and then just use gestures to navigate it. Side to side 3 finger swipe switches desktops, 3 finger swipe up takes you to task view, and with the small screen id hate to have some sort of taskbar.

If i was using a mouse i would probably want something more windows-esque in its design which i think KDE does better. So for a desktop id probably go with that.

[cerement@slrpnk.net]

mpv for the win

but if you really want your ASCII conversion: mpv --vo=caca or mpv --vo=tct

[domi@lemmy.secnd.me]

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.

[baconisaveg@lemmy.ml]

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.

[Guest]

I'm using PopOS Cosmic alpha (not based on Gnome) on my new laptop and like it a lot so far. It has a few rough edges, but nothing I'd switch to something else over. (In fact, I did use the Gnome version of Cosmic until my previous laptop broke.)

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

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.

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

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.

[jokro@feddit.org]

GNOME because it works out of the box like GNOME

[ohh@lemmy.ml]

This and shortcut for creating a subfolder doeesnt work in save dialogue.

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

I haven't lasted long enough after the Search piss-off to notice the tomfoolery of that.

[seeferns@programming.dev]

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

[hotcoffee@lemm.ee]

It's actually possible! Thats amazing lol