If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?
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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.
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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.
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Much like Windows.
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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.
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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
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Except people are forced to use windows. Not so with gnome
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If you say so
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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.
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had no idea you could use it on not a deck!
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Has KDE improved since 2010-ish? I gave up KDE because gnome was just a better DE at the time. Gnome sucks now, but I found i3/sway. Haven’t given KDE a second chance yet
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There is so much missing from Gnome that is present in most other DEs and even custom WM setups.
There are also plenty of features that gnome has that kde and other desktops and wms don't have. It's all about tradeoffs and what's acceptable or necessary for you.
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Cosmic is not based on gnome
Cosmic has devs that give a shit about their users.
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The gnome folks are in too deep with popular environments. Like a tick.
(Not The Tick, though, he's swell)
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I remember when kde looked like xfce and yeah back then it was buggy. Today it looks like a slightly jank windows 7 but with the giant buttons and curved corners that characterize 2015 software.
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That's the beauty of gnome: they don't give a single fuck if you like it. You can return the favor.
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Hey bud it's fine some people are capable of multitasking and some people are content with gnome.
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some of us just weren't meant for greatness, i guess.
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KDE the customization is off the charts
