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

[Guest]

I keep coming back to KDE time and time again. It's so easy to mess with, I can set it up exactly how I like it without much effort, and it always looks good because someone else did all the work making themes and widgets I use.

That said, I love XFCE, I'm just trash with CSS so it takes me forever to get it how I like, and on my Surface I can't get the scaling to work so everything is beyond tiny.

[Guest]

KDE. Been upgrading the same environment for 5 years just keeps getting better.

I started around maybe KDE 3?

[Guest]

The surprising thing is that KDE would run on there just fine too. If you don't add all the PIM stuff, it's almost a wash in memory usage and just as snappy.

[lengau@midwest.social]

Because distros have a sick sense of humour.

[lengau@midwest.social]

This isn't even hard. KDE without a second thought.

I regularly try other desktops, and I regularly come back to the only desktop with any sort of reasonable thought put into it.

[non_burglar@lemmy.world]

[jimmy90@lemmy.world]

And there was me thinking because it's really good?

[Guest]

Lol, yep. It's always funny to see xfce as being light weight.

Is this where I continue the meme and say I use arch by the way?

[lengau@midwest.social]

It's not though.

[Guest]

Was on KDE 2, KDE 3 was absolutely incredible, ran it on Mac when it was supported on xquartz.

4 was a mess, but got better, 5 & 6 are fine, but it's overall far better than any other DE, it's just so customizable, the only other thing that comes close is xmonad or something.

[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.