For me its KDE.
Vanilla Gnome. It’s simple/boring, and I like that. It seems like most people that like Gnome don’t care that it’s not a poweruser DE, and aren’t excited to talk about it either.
I use gnome, but it’s basically the worst DE, except all of the other ones that have been tried
It has the least features, so by default the least bugs.
For aesthetics: Budgie, with Cinnamon a close second For simplicity and speed: XFCE
Cinnamon. Stupidly simple and elegant looking.
I avoided GNOME3 for the longest time, but I decided to try it on a new install of Debian on a whim and actually ended up really liking it. Needed to enable a couple of extensions, but once you get used to it the workflow isn’t at all that bad.
Gnome with pop_os tiling window manager
KDE
KDE sets a really high bar with all the packages and extensibility. Almost everything (not including the lesser known and used packages) is feature-packed and
just works
. I really don’t know any other software that constantly amazes me like KDE.KDE Plasma 5.27 is incredible. Such a stable and customizable experience! 😍
Kde because it has a really useful and functional out of the box tools, being dolphin and connect the most useful ones for me.
Never had an issue since last year, but yeah, was buggy as hell.
Mate if I want more juice from a not so good pc, and xfce for the low end ones.
xfce for a very long time. I really like tiling WMs but always come back to xfce
Xfce is the best!
See I don’t really get the appeal of xfce, I kinda see it as the minimal DE you use if you’ve got low powered hardware or if you need a DE on a system that isn’t a personal computer and just need the bare minimum to run a graphical application or two
it’s the quickest fully featured de, and as an added bonus, it’s the least buggy of them all, it’s also very simple in it’s functioning, fairly close to a diy desktop + wm config, so tweaking random stuff like the compositor is easy to do and doesn’t break everything
Default GNOME (Wayland), it just works
GNOME, with a little bit of extension customisability!
KDE is love, KDE is life
Xfce, i just like it.
XFCE, tried cinnamon a couple times it was okay but I just prefer the simplicity and stability of xfce