Arch Linux

I use GNOME.

I use a window manager, Openbox. It's great once you have your personal config file and shortcuts! Also, I can't be sure but I think @mutoroglin@feddit.nl recently switched to Hyperland lol

long time i3 user, now switched to sway

I have Plasma installed on my Arch based installation, but I hardly use it since I also have i3 installed which I adore.

My i3 setup looks very similar to my Plasma setup, I prefer window managers because they are more productive to use.

I just jumped up on the Hyprland band wagon (4 weeks ago). Very pleased with it so far!

I'm using xfce. It's on endeavros as I like to belong to the arch crowd without working with the lengthly set up from scratch.

I prefer xfce as anything of note is accessible with a few minor exceptions due to endeavros security concerns such as Bluetooth which requires a quick systemctl command.

I started off with it after discovering ubuntu and trying the xfce version. I liked it and went through a few distros including crunchbang with openbox but ultimately xfce is a very straightforward experience for me and fairly customisable. The only drawback is it doesn't look like some of the awesome screenshots I've seen of i3 or other tiling managers but as a teacher I don't do development or have that much knowledge to tinker so xfce is my go-to.

I used to build e17 / Enlightenment on Arch for years, was kinda cool and I learned a lot about building packages, but now I don't care anymore and I just use gnome. Or rather I'm using Firefox and a terminal and that's pretty much it. Oh and Gimp every once in a while. But most of the time it's fullscreen Firefox so who cares what de is behind it as long as it just works

i3 with dmenu and polybar. Such a great and efficient setup for school and work, love it.

Xfce on Manjaro VM. Love it.

I recently switched to hyprland, love it!

I have tried tiling WM's but they are not for me. KDE Plasma offers the right balance of customisability, look consistency and features to always come back on top again. It's been my go-to desktop environment since KDE3.

Gnome. It just seems simple, elegant and smooth. It does what I need from a DE (not that much, I do a lot in terminal and Emacs). It has good keybindings out of the box and good virtual desktop mechanisms. It was also the first DE with good Wayland support. At first I was unsure if I liked Gnome's concept and restrictions, but I've grown to like it fast.

I use xmonad on my laptop with my small screen, and xfce on my desktop with a slightly roomier screen. I think tiling window managers tend to matter less and less as emacs has begun to take over all of my time on the computer everything tends to stay in one or two emacs frames (and many buffers).

Gnome for 10+years... Across a variety of PCs... Intel NUC, mac pro 13, several dell laptops, and dell XPS 9560 and 9570 ATM.

I'm using Cinnamon

I went from Gnome2, a few months on MATE, then Mint's Cinnamon until I moved on to Manjaro Cinnamon for 2 days, then tested KDE and got stuck on KDE.

Sway. I look around every few months but nothing usually, um, erm pendulates my interest. I have hyprland installed...but my config file breaks with every update, and it's rice first, function later. I'm an opposite-ricer. I like to strip all decorations.

I recently switched to hyprland and I love. I used plasma before but wanted to touch base with a tiling wm.

Sorry for the spam. These are my first activities with Lemmy, guess I should click less and be more patient

I'm switching between Arch and Manjaro, but I'm using mostly Gnome. Recently I had some weeks with KDE, but since Evolution is not well integrated, I'm using Gnome now again. Kmail is uncomfortable and total illogical for me. I don't get it to work the way I need it. Maybe the redesigned Thunderbird changes my mind, but there was a lot illogical other workflows on KDE on top. So I think I stay with Gnome or switch to XFCE.

Kde, let me change everything every time I get bored instead of switching to a whole different WM.

I just use GNOME with a few extensions. Works fairly well for me.

Desktop - KDE

Laptop - Gnome

AwesomeWM and KDE as a fallback when I mess my configuration.

I've switched to LXQt recently. I like KDE and use mostly Qt apps, but KDE itself has too many features I don't really need. So far so good, I can't say I miss anything.

I use Xfce on my computers except my Pi where I use Window Maker. Window Maker with its lower resource needs really helps when the Pi is used with resolutions over 1080p.

KDE on Mandrake/SuSE back when they were on version 1/2, GNOME on Debian/Ubuntu until 2016, a little bit of Enlightenment for the quirky days, XFCE instead of Enlightenment when I had to do actual work on a lighter machine, and now have been using GNOME daily for 4-5 years. For me it's customizable enough, and I prefer the design to KDE these days (KDE has too many different margins and paddings for me to handle).

Longtime cinnamon user here. I've also spent significant time in i3, plasma, and mate on variously specced systems. I'll probably end up switching to gnome at some point though, whenever I finally commit to de-xorgifying my pc.

I'm not an Arch user (I stayed in Fedora because convenience at the time), but I use Qtile these days. I have my own little scripts for making the colorscheme the same as the wal colorscheme.

Bspwm, but MATE has been my go-to for years

I'm always returning to cinnamon, but was on Bungie for awhile

i3 user here! ;)

None - I don't run any DE, just a WM - i3. All I need is a terminal, browser, sublime-text for larger projects, and that's about it.

Just i3, very simple. I am considering testing wayland (sway probably) sometime soon, but i'm not too knowledgeable in case something goes awry and my laptop has a discreet nvidia so RIP.

Arch, btw and I use KDE on my desktop and laptops. I did put Gnome recently on one of my laptops to try and see all the new hub-bub from the latest upgrade, but went running back to KDE. I love 'global menus' and to my knowledge, gnome doesn't have an extension for that, but besides, the DE always feels simplified and overly constrained for usage, imo. I only with the Gnome devs weren't such control freaks, LOL, but maybe that is why some like Gnome.

I am excited about the development of Hyprland, kind of the best of two worlds, customization theming and dynamic tilling in one, although not really ready yet for everyday usage from what I have read.

I'm currently using Xmonad on my main Arch system, before that was Herbstluftwm. Occasionally I boot up KDE to check on how it's coming along or when i'm feeling nostalgic for what helped get me into Linux many years ago.

I'm currently using Gnome, but I'd like to switch to a tiling WM at some point

I am a die hard Cinnamon guy. I used to like MATE and then I played with Linux Mint for a short while and Cinnamon became my thing. Cinnamon works really well in Arch too. I just wish that its window manager, Muffin, would support Wayland. I really want to drop xorg like a bad habit.

I have been using Arch+KDE plasma for ~5years on my main rig, I love it!

I have been using Arch+KDE plasma for ~5years on my main rig, I love it!