Spent lots of time with Gnome 2.
In Dec 2024 I got hooked in Hyprland on Arch and have a cool rice for it. But I’ve tried KDE on desktop now with Parrot OS since Plasma is popular. Still need to find some cool dot files or rice it myself.
I’ve noticed SwayFX getting lots of love lately. I might use that as an option with Plasma but am afraid of conflicts. I’m excited about it since Linux has now officially replaced windows on my gaming rig, which is the very last MS computer left in my house.
NsCDE on several OSes.
Cinnamon. Desktop UI peaked in the Gnome 2/Windows XP era and anything after that is bloat for the sake of bloat.
Might try kde plasma though, if I can make it behave the same.
I’m with you on Cinnamon, but I’m anxious for the Wayland support.
KDE like a real grown up
Mate 👍
KDE on Arch, aesthetically pleasing and mostly functional out of the box. There are some startup quirks, but that’s likely due to my LUKS setup which I will change with the next re-install. Already tried to fix multiple times, it’s too much of a hassle to keep trying to fix an <5 minutes per day issue.
Been on i3wm for 3 4 years now I guess. Also work with sway on some systems.
you can actually see and use my config
fvwm3 on most systems, wmaker on a few, recently trying out kde for potential wayland migration
Stock GNOME. No extensions.
I would almost agree to this response. But there is one single Extension that I think is crucial: Appindicator. Without this things like Nextcloud or Synology Drive cannot be used propperly.
I was leaning to also include copyous. But it is not absolutely mandatory.
I’m running Niri on Debian.
Plasma 6.8 dev
Sway, me like simple.
Niri
KDE Plasma. It’s the most feature rich “just works” DE there is. GNOME doesn’t even have fucking maximize and minimize buttons by default without adding them via GNOME Tweaks.
I used to be a Cinnamon/Linux Mint lover, but their slow implementation of Wayland, Window Scaling, and certain other annoyances like their split NetworkManager GUI between GNOME’s UI and the native NetworkManager UI made me switch.
Arch linux + niti + dms, amazing!
Plasma, with the taskbar on the side, and 15 virtual desktops.
