I use GNOME.

I use a window manager, Openbox. It's great once you have your personal config file and shortcuts! Also, I can't be sure but I think @[email protected] recently switched to Hyperland lol

Kde, let me change everything every time I get bored instead of switching to a whole different WM.

I just jumped up on the Hyprland band wagon (4 weeks ago). Very pleased with it so far!

I have Plasma installed on my Arch based installation, but I hardly use it since I also have i3 installed which I adore.

My i3 setup looks very similar to my Plasma setup, I prefer window managers because they are more productive to use.

I have tried tiling WM's but they are not for me. KDE Plasma offers the right balance of customisability, look consistency and features to always come back on top again. It's been my go-to desktop environment since KDE3.

I recently switched to hyprland, love it!

long time i3 user, now switched to sway

i3 with dmenu and polybar. Such a great and efficient setup for school and work, love it.

Gnome. It just seems simple, elegant and smooth. It does what I need from a DE (not that much, I do a lot in terminal and Emacs). It has good keybindings out of the box and good virtual desktop mechanisms. It was also the first DE with good Wayland support. At first I was unsure if I liked Gnome's concept and restrictions, but I've grown to like it fast.

I'm using xfce. It's on endeavros as I like to belong to the arch crowd without working with the lengthly set up from scratch.

I prefer xfce as anything of note is accessible with a few minor exceptions due to endeavros security concerns such as Bluetooth which requires a quick systemctl command.

I started off with it after discovering ubuntu and trying the xfce version. I liked it and went through a few distros including crunchbang with openbox but ultimately xfce is a very straightforward experience for me and fairly customisable. The only drawback is it doesn't look like some of the awesome screenshots I've seen of i3 or other tiling managers but as a teacher I don't do development or have that much knowledge to tinker so xfce is my go-to.

I use xmonad on my laptop with my small screen, and xfce on my desktop with a slightly roomier screen. I think tiling window managers tend to matter less and less as emacs has begun to take over all of my time on the computer everything tends to stay in one or two emacs frames (and many buffers).

I'm using Cinnamon

I've switched to LXQt recently. I like KDE and use mostly Qt apps, but KDE itself has too many features I don't really need. So far so good, I can't say I miss anything.

I recently switched to hyprland and I love. I used plasma before but wanted to touch base with a tiling wm.

Sorry for the spam. These are my first activities with Lemmy, guess I should click less and be more patient

I just use GNOME with a few extensions. Works fairly well for me.

Xfce on Manjaro VM. Love it.

XFCE on Arch...been using it for years.

Sway. I look around every few months but nothing usually, um, erm pendulates my interest. I have hyprland installed...but my config file breaks with every update, and it's rice first, function later. I'm an opposite-ricer. I like to strip all decorations.

I used to build e17 / Enlightenment on Arch for years, was kinda cool and I learned a lot about building packages, but now I don't care anymore and I just use gnome. Or rather I'm using Firefox and a terminal and that's pretty much it. Oh and Gimp every once in a while. But most of the time it's fullscreen Firefox so who cares what de is behind it as long as it just works

icewm is awesome for what i need! lightweight and simple, with good themes online.

KDE on desktop, XFCE on laptop

I use Cinnamon which is quite a niche I think, but I really like the minimalistic design. My main requirement for a DE is for it to not get into my way.

herbstluftwm - I remember there were reasons why I chose it, but I don't remember them xD

XFCE with the WM replaced with Openbox. Ask me about my Openbox keyboard bindings for window moving and resizing :)

I kind of want to try KDE again, but I still feel it's too laggy, at least on my machine with intel graphics.

Hyprland window manager on my PC and laptop at the moment, but I might switch (back) to KDE soon for some QoL stuff and bc why not lol

None - I don't run any DE, just a WM - i3. All I need is a terminal, browser, sublime-text for larger projects, and that's about it.

I just switched from GNOME to Xfce after many years of the former. I had enough after some extensions broke for the millionth time. And the amount of resources used was bonkers. Currently working on setting up Xfce to my liking

I just switched from GNOME to Xfce after many years of the former. I had enough after some extensions broke for the millionth time. And the amount of resources used was bonkers. Currently working on setting up Xfce to my liking

I just switched from GNOME to Xfce after many years of the former. I had enough after some extensions broke for the millionth time. And the amount of resources used was bonkers. Currently working on setting up Xfce to my liking

Desktop - KDE

Laptop - Gnome

I'm currently using Gnome, but I'd like to switch to a tiling WM at some point

I'm switching between Arch and Manjaro, but I'm using mostly Gnome. Recently I had some weeks with KDE, but since Evolution is not well integrated, I'm using Gnome now again. Kmail is uncomfortable and total illogical for me. I don't get it to work the way I need it. Maybe the redesigned Thunderbird changes my mind, but there was a lot illogical other workflows on KDE on top. So I think I stay with Gnome or switch to XFCE.

I have been using Arch+KDE plasma for ~5years on my main rig, I love it!

I have been using Arch+KDE plasma for ~5years on my main rig, I love it!

I've been using KDE, GNOME for a short while to see where they are in usability. Got bored and started using hyperland setup for a few months now. I was also using i3 for years before thag.

qtile and picom. It took some getting used to but I never want to leave the luxury of dynamic tiling.