first: gnome current: gnome favourite: niri honourable mention: kde least favourite: cosmic (probably as i used it from an alpha that probably wasn't ready to daily drive yet) longest used: no idea, i've used niri, kde, gnome, xfce and leftwm for considerable periods of time future: i want to go back to niri at some point, just using gnome for the convenience for the moment

Longest-used: XFCE, by far. Current: Wayfire + Noctalia 5.

I'm still an user of XFCE4. It just works.

Edit: Wrong DE name.

First: Gnome Favorite: Gnome Longest Used: Gnome Least Favorite: KDE Current: Gnome Future: Gnome

Used Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE in the past. Bucking the trend, I think Gnome is fine and does what I need it to do. You do you, though. That's what is great about Linux.

Favorite: Cinnamon.
Honorable Mention: KDE.
Least Favorite: Gnome.
First: Gnome.
Current: Cinnamon.
Longest Used: KDE.
Future: Cinnamon

Cosmic is actually usable now? I thought it was still missing some pretty major features.

Niri + dank material shell over here. I absolutely love the infinite horizontal desktop

I don't think I can really fit my opinions neatly into these categories. I tend to lean toward Gnome because it does what I need it to do, seems to have the fewest problems and annoyances, while still being fully featured.

I really want to like KDE Plasma, and have been using it more, but it still has a number of things that bug me. Some programs run inexplicably slow on it. It goes a little overboard with notifications and popups. Like do I really need to approve my game controllers almost any time I plug them in?

On the other hand, it really is fully featured, and I love the KDE Connect integration.

Haven't used anything else in years, cause I always find other des/wms to just be a little too short on features. Did used to like XFCE a lot though.

• Favourite: GNOME
• Honourable Mention: Stable Hybrid Release (SHR) for OpenMoko
• Least Favourite: dwm
• First: twm or maybe fvwm95 on Slackware 96
• Current: GNOME
• Longest Used: GNOME
• Future: GNOME

In the 1990s I also used IceWM and Enlightenment. My first DE was KDE, but I have been using GNOME pretty consistently for twenty years.

Sway all the way bay bay

I use Linux btw

Favorite: KDE.

Least Favorite: Gnome, but I've not tried a ton... It's slick but way too opinionated for my tastes. I could change most of what bothers me about it with add-ons and mods, but KDE gives me the controls I want out of the box, and lets you do damned near anything you want before you even start installing mods (I don't understand the person who thinks it's too limited and Gnome is more flexible, but different priorities, I guess)

First DE: KDE on XanderOS... To be fair, the name sounded cool to young me and I didn't know much of anything about the different Linux distros yet. And I think Ubuntu either wasn't around yet or hadn't gotten well enough known for me to have spotted it initially

Honorable Mention: Unity... Love it or hate it, Ubuntu was trying something actually interesting and I think it's a shame they didn't stick with it longer

Current DE: KDE

Potential Future DE: not sure, KDE does everything I want at this time, but I might give Cosmic a try, and/or a tiling WM, though I suspect I won't care for it (I'll give it a real shot to convince me, I just don't see the appeal)

Longest used DE: KDE

Current distro: Mint with KDE shoehorned in, though will be OpenSuSE Tumbleweed in a couple hours (I love Mint but I'm tired of fighting with old packages and drivers, and suspect that might be the cause of graphics stack crashes that have plagued me... Also because I'm tired of waiting for KDE 6 for years now and it'll be probably mid next year still before it's available on Mint, and even then still only as an afterthought)

Favourite DE & Current DE: GNOME. Simply the only one with a consistent and modern design.

Least Favourite: cosmic. This needs a lot more polish before I consider it anywhere close to an actual option. Currently it looks childish to me.

First DE used: Unity. It's been a long, long time.

DE you wanna use in the future: None. I'm done DE hopping, no DE can deliver the level of consistency and polish that GNOME can deliver anymore.

Longest used DE: Pantheon. On elementary OS. Gnome took a long time to get its shit together, but at least it did.

Honourable Mention: KDE. It's... Meh. It fixed some things consistency-wise, but it's still stuck in the past when it comes to UI paradigms. It claims customisability, it's only customisable in ways that barely matter anymore and can only break consistency. Insane workload on the app devs and the theme devs to have something working reliably as well.

Gnome with extensions is basically a better cosmic for me

All of the boxes are KDE, except

Least favorite: GNOME

Current distro: Garuda

What's that raindrop one in the middle?

Favorite DE: Niri First DE used: XFCE DE you want to use in the future: Niri Honorable Mention: Hyprland least favorite: Anything non tiling, or maybe Hyprland due to a lot of minor annoyances Current DE: Niri longest used DE: i3 Current Distro: NixOS and Arch

You should try Niri!

Favorite: In usability KDE, in looks XFCE-winxptc

Least favorite: I3 (I can't be bothered especially when it's x11)

First: Unity

Honorauble mention: Hyprland (wasn't difficult to config)

Current: xfce-winxptc (it almost works perfectly for daily use but dolphin causes the theming to break and resets icons, but most importantly there's no search I have to use a keyboard shortcut for that.)

Longest used: KDE

DE I wanna use: xfce-winxptc with extra functionality.

Current distro: Cachy OS (First arch based distro that didn't black screen in the first month.)

First: kde Least favorite: xfce Favorite: niri Currently using: niri gnome and kde Honorable mention: cosmic