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!

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.