First: Gnome Favorite: Gnome Longest Used: Gnome Least Favorite: KDE Current: Gnome Future: Gnome

Used Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE in the past. Bucking the trend, I think Gnome is fine and does what I need it to do. You do you, though. That’s what is great about Linux.

Favorite: Cinnamon.
Honorable Mention: KDE.
Least Favorite: Gnome.
First: Gnome.
Current: Cinnamon.
Longest Used: KDE.
Future: Cinnamon

Sway all the way bay bay

I use Linux btw

Favourite DE & Current DE: GNOME. Simply the only one with a consistent and modern design.

Least Favourite: cosmic. This needs a lot more polish before I consider it anywhere close to an actual option. Currently it looks childish to me.

First DE used: Unity. It’s been a long, long time.

DE you wanna use in the future: None. I’m done DE hopping, no DE can deliver the level of consistency and polish that GNOME can deliver anymore.

Longest used DE: Pantheon. On elementary OS. Gnome took a long time to get its shit together, but at least it did.

Honourable Mention: KDE. It’s… Meh. It fixed some things consistency-wise, but it’s still stuck in the past when it comes to UI paradigms. It claims customisability, it’s only customisable in ways that barely matter anymore and can only break consistency. Insane workload on the app devs and the theme devs to have something working reliably as well.

What’s that raindrop one in the middle?

Gnome with extensions is basically a better cosmic for me

Favorite: KDE.

Least Favorite: Gnome, but I’ve not tried a ton… It’s slick but way too opinionated for my tastes. I could change most of what bothers me about it with add-ons and mods, but KDE gives me the controls I want out of the box, and lets you do damned near anything you want before you even start installing mods (I don’t understand the person who thinks it’s too limited and Gnome is more flexible, but different priorities, I guess)

First DE: KDE on XanderOS… To be fair, the name sounded cool to young me and I didn’t know much of anything about the different Linux distros yet. And I think Ubuntu either wasn’t around yet or hadn’t gotten well enough known for me to have spotted it initially

Honorable Mention: Unity… Love it or hate it, Ubuntu was trying something actually interesting and I think it’s a shame they didn’t stick with it longer

Current DE: KDE

Potential Future DE: not sure, KDE does everything I want at this time, but I might give Cosmic a try, and/or a tiling WM, though I suspect I won’t care for it (I’ll give it a real shot to convince me, I just don’t see the appeal)

Longest used DE: KDE

Current distro: Mint with KDE shoehorned in, though will be OpenSuSE Tumbleweed in a couple hours (I love Mint but I’m tired of fighting with old packages and drivers, and suspect that might be the cause of graphics stack crashes that have plagued me… Also because I’m tired of waiting for KDE 6 for years now and it’ll be probably mid next year still before it’s available on Mint, and even then still only as an afterthought)

All of the boxes are KDE, except

Least favorite: GNOME

Current distro: Garuda

First: kde Least favorite: xfce Favorite: niri Currently using: niri gnome and kde Honorable mention: cosmic

Favorite and first WM: i3

First and only DE: GNOME

Honorable mention: cinnamon

First used: TWM / TVWM
Then: FVWM
Then: Windowmaker
Then: Enlightenment (briefly)
Then: Gnome (briefly)
Then KDE (to this day)

I played around with a number of others, but never really used them much.

Favorite: In usability KDE, in looks XFCE-winxptc

Least favorite: I3 (I can’t be bothered especially when it’s x11)

First: Unity

Honorauble mention: Hyprland (wasn’t difficult to config)

Current: xfce-winxptc (it almost works perfectly for daily use but dolphin causes the theming to break and resets icons, but most importantly there’s no search I have to use a keyboard shortcut for that.)

Longest used: KDE

DE I wanna use: xfce-winxptc with extra functionality.

Current distro: Cachy OS (First arch based distro that didn’t black screen in the first month.)

i can’t do these because i only have used linux mint and still use mint

Favorite: KDE

Least favorite: GNOME (but Adwaita is sick)

First DE used: KDE

Honourable mention: Hyprland, Cosmic

Current DE: KDE

Longest used DE: KDE

DE you wanna use in the future: KDE

Current distro: Bazzite

Yeah…I made my pick :D

Favorite: KDE. The GOAT babyyy

Least Favorite: Deepin, due to the privacy concerns

First DE: XFCE

Honorable Mention: Cosmic. It is sexy with decent balance of customization & strong unified vision. It is early on though so not quite ready for prime time. Some bugs, and resource consumption could be better.

Current DE: KDE

Potential Future DE: Might see what thr fuss is about with WMs like Niri. It seems more complicated to set up than it needs to be, but I like the tiling and use of desktops sort of like GNOME but better.

Longest used DE: KDE

Current distro: Fedora KDE