For me its KDE.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      1 year ago

      KDE Plasma 5.27 is incredible. Such a stable and customizable experience! 😍

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      In addition to that, they make nice FOSS apps that are great for any DE (see Krita, Kdenlive)

      Also it looks like Windows, and that to me is a huge plus for anyone using my computer.

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    i3. I mean, it’s fast, customizable, and you can make it look good. That’s all i need.

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    1 year ago

    For aesthetics: Budgie, with Cinnamon a close second For simplicity and speed: XFCE

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        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

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          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

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    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.

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      It’s KDE for me too, but I don’t really get the buggy part. Sure kwin crashes sometimes, but that happened to me like 2 or 3 times during my 2 and half years on openSUSE. Other than that I can’t think of something really bugged? Maybe I’m too tolerant, having to work with Windows XP and DOS at work…

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        Maybe, I had so many frickin kwin crashes every time I tried it, and there is a known bug with fractional scaling in some resolutions which affected me that drove me insane, if you care enough I could try to track it down on the bugtracker and link it.

        But yeah, loved it, except for the bugs. I like gnome less, but it’s less buggy, so I’m using that.

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          I wonder if KDE stability is related to i18n/l10n. I am running desktops in German and KDE crashes for me all the time on freshly installed machines before I even could touch settings. (I tried a lot of KDE versions over the years, from stable/mainstream distributions like Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu). Besides the constant crashing I missed a mail client on the level of Evolution or Thunderbird when I tried KDE.