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

[Guest]

which desktop env tho? Cinnamon?

[Guest]

why not kde for laptop?

[Guest]

Sway for a laptop, Plasma for desktop.

Had you have asked me a few weeks ago, I probably would have said Sway for both,.or maybe Gnome for the desktop... But I decided to check out KDE again for the first time in like 20 years, and while it's still kind of a hot mess it has come a long way.

[the16bitgamer@programming.dev]

Cinnamon for 2 reasons

1. KDE is missing a lot of features which still only works in Gnome. Like the taskbar Calendar app syncing events with services like Google Calendar

2. cinnamon is extremely stable and doesn’t move your icons around when you connect to an external display with your laptop and the display has a different resolution.

[overload@sopuli.xyz]

Oh yeah for sure. I think if Gnome works for people they should use it. I'm not stoked on the situation of Gnome Extensions being needed for some pretty basic customisations, adding instability to the DE though.

[Guest]

MATE has been on most of my machines, except the BSD ones.

But past year or so, I have grown a fondness towards ctwm, and gradually migrated my machines to it, Linux and BSD alike.

It is not a DE, but the fact that I have to assemble my suite of software myself on my machines, makes the point of using DEs moot.

[horse@lemmygrad.ml]

i3
best tiling on X

[arcane2077@sh.itjust.works]

The amount of not KDE answers here surprises me. Y'all a bunch of nerds [endearing]

[Guest]

KDE plasma. Coming from 30 years of running exclusively windows it's just the most comfortable and easy for me to use (way more than Gnome). Easily configurable, works. Can't ask for more.

[Guest]

KDE Plasma for ease of use if using Nvidia
Otherwise Hyprland or exwm

[toastal@lemmy.ml]

I would say the same & I don’t even use it—but I would trust it being around the longest & is better than GNOME IMO.

[Guest]

I agree it looks kind of like a phone. But, and take this with a big grain of salt because I didn't use Gnome for very long at all, I thought it was really nice to navigate. I ended up using the mouse much less than I do now with Cinnamon.

[wojwo@lemmy.ml]

KDE plasma, unless it's on a tablet, then Gnome

[shanmugha@lemmy.world]

True people only use i3 or the-other-i3-for-wayland

/s, of course. But still my personal choice

[jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works]

I'd imagine lower power laptop? Though I'm using KDE on a laptop from 2012 and it works fine

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

KDE, always

Used it since I switched to the Linux Desktop 25 years ago. Quickly tried gnome, and others, and hated it.

KDE is fast, efficient, looks awesome, is ready to work with, and highly customizable

[Guest]

Switched from i3 to sway to hyland. I like the virtual desktop setup and noiseless facing interaction.

[easily3667@lemmus.org]

Plenty of people just don't have the brain capacity to read settings or multitask and that's fine. If that works for them, good for them.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Yes, Mint Cinnamon. Weird combination of names tho, I don't even want to think about combining those flavors.

[Guest]

I'm a long time supporter of Xfce, but I have to say Cinnamon these days. It's light on resources while being feature rich. Also it's the default on Mint and it just works.