I’d probably pick KDE. I use Gnome on almost every machine, but Gnome makes weird decisions, and I assume one day I won’t like one of them. KDE always seems to get better and add more options. I can make KDE work like practically any other DE, including Gnome.
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I settled on herbstluft in I think around 2015 and 10 years later have still never felt the need to migrate anywhere else.
I did about a year ago give up lightDM for emptty, but that doesn't really count.
Switched from i3 to sway to hyland. I like the virtual desktop setup and noiseless facing interaction.
KDE. I've been using it as my daily driver for roughly 10 years now, and barring any unforeseen excitement, it'll stay that way indefinitely. Proably until I stop using Linux, anyhow.
Fluxbox.
Technically, not a DE, but a WM...which makes me the DE, I guess....
Fedora Gnome. In my head it’s Linux.
I just don't like KDE and am not a big fan of stock Gnome either but the PopOS version with COSMIC features plus the Dash to Panel extension make it pretty useable
Twm, I'll extend it as needed.
Gnome. It looks so much more modern, but I would like a layout like Plasmas more than the gnome one
Well, for me it would be the setup i am now using since about 15 years:
WM: flwm Filemanager: ROX-Filer Background: feh
... and a ton of tools i accumulated over the yesrs
I think in going to switch from XFCE to KDE just because the XFCE merit of using the least amount of the resources is no longer a reality. I miss LXDE
Lxqt?
I stopped using the LX suite when they stopped working on LXDE and switched to LXQT. I think I need to look towards openbox for a minimal DE experience
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I currently use GNOME and would continue to but if it were a low spec machine, probably icewm or jwm.
y'all sure like KDE though 🤢
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I've only tried KDE and i'm pretty happy with it. I dunno why I'd want a creepy foot gnome on my computer, and I don't really know of any others by name yet so.... I'mma pick KDE
Had To scroll way too far to find Cinnamon so here's back to the top.
Herbstluftwm with dmenu. Just a windows manager. I've gotten used to using the command line for things I used to rely on a DE for.
Sway for a laptop, Plasma for desktop.
Had you have asked me a few weeks ago, I probably would have said Sway for both,.or maybe Gnome for the desktop... But I decided to check out KDE again for the first time in like 20 years, and while it's still kind of a hot mess it has come a long way.
The amount of not KDE answers here surprises me. Y'all a bunch of nerds [endearing]
Xfce
True people only use i3 or the-other-i3-for-wayland
/s, of course. But still my personal choice
I'm a long time supporter of Xfce, but I have to say Cinnamon these days. It's light on resources while being feature rich. Also it's the default on Mint and it just works.
I use XFCE, but I like Cinnamon too. I use Nemo and Xed instead of Thunar and...whatever.