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Okay. There's a difference between a Desktop Environment and a Window Manager. There are lots of Window Managers, but not that many DEs. Ive played around with a lot of them, and I thought I'd share my thoughts:
Hopping around to different DEs can be fun, but at the end of the day, the trick is to find one that has a workflow that works for you, or use KDE and make the workflow you need.
ETA: Somehow, I forgot to mention Mate. Basically, it's an updated version of Gnome 2, which, to me, is an uglier and more awkward to configure XFCE. It's not for me, but a lot of folks really love it. It's so cool that we have a choice, and can be different!
I'll add Trinity to the list. It started as a fork of KDE 3.5.
I haven't tried Trinity, mostly because KDE 3 was a bad experience for me. It's certainly an interesting project, though.
I tried it on my play-puter and while it was certainly nostalgic, it wasn't enough to make me switch from Plasma.
I use Trinity as a daily driver, although I may be the only person on Lemmy who does. My Unixporn post
TDE has packages for (as far as I know) all major distros, although only two very minor ones (Q4OS and ExeGnuLinux) use it as the default DE. It is very much a traditional desktop environment designed for a keyboard+mouse setup, so if you have a touchscreen, it may not be for you.
Also Budgie!
The thing about budgie I've noticed from screenshots is that the environment looks vastly different on each distro that supports it. IMO solus looks way best, but at the moment solus is up in the sir lol
I have nothing against Budgie, I just haven't used it. It looks pretty nice, though 😀
I don't use Budgie either, just adding to this excellent and very detailed list of DEs.
There's also NsCDE, the modern version of CDE
Never heard of this, I'll have to look into it and cde for that matter
NsCDE is my desktop on Slackware, Slint, Void, and OpenBSD. I guess I'm most comfortable with it.