cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1789763
For me its KDE.
Personally, I’m a bit torn currently… I’ve mostly used Pop!_OS’s customized Gnome desktop since I fully switched to Linux in 2019, and I am also rather eager to try out their upcoming, Rust-based Cosmic Desktop too.
However, I have come to quite like KDE on my laptop now running OpenSuse Tumbleweed. It’s a fantastic experience, and honestly more distros should ship with it rather than plain Gnome.
Curious what others here say their favorite is though!
I’m a KDE guy. It does what I need, has the options I want, and stays out of my way. I’ve used just about everything though. I used to like XFCE and GNOME 2 but it feels like KDE is the most actively developed nowadays, and I can shape KDE to be minimal if needed. With Wayland being the way that it is, it currently feels necessary to stay on the most actively maintained DEs for compatibility.
Yeah, I’ve begun to come around to that thinking as well. I’m curious to see what S76 has for their Cosmic DE that’s written in Rust. I imagine I’ll stick with that, though if that doesn’t pan out well, I’d likely consider switching to KDE Plasma as my primary DE for my gaming/work PC.
We’ll see if Cosmic DE is good enough to dethrone KDE/GNOME. My hopes are not high that S76 can do it better, but I’d like to be surprised.
Based on early views of it, I think it’ll certainly give Gnome a run for it’s money. If nothing else, it’s helping to flesh out a Rust-based GUI toolkit for the rest of us. Iced is gonna be a lot more powerful in the end, whether their DE succeeds or fails.