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If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it's Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)...etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.

Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the "Flagship Manjaro version". I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.

After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.

What about you guys?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (31 children)

I'd rather not use a computer at all than use GNOME for the rest of my live.
For me it's KDE Plasma all the way.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

It’s wild to me how GNOME evokes such strong opinions in folks. It really is a love it or hate it kind of deal (I’m in the “love it” camp).

I wonder why that is. I like KDE ok, but it doesn’t elicit a strong emotion from me. KDE works fine, I just really like GNOME.

There must be something about GNOME in particular that some people love, and others hate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I was team Gnome before Gnome 3 came out. Nowadays I don't mind it for auxiliary computers that I don't interact with regularly. It has a huge community behind it and that is a quality in its own right. But since MATE never really managed to become a worthy successor to Gnome 2 I guess I'm team Plasma now. I got it "forced" on me by my beloved Steam Deck and I can definitely see why Valve went for it.

Currently I'm experimenting with Hyprland but that is definitely too early to call it my forever pick, so Plasma it is.

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