Which DE would you use? and why?

>>105860754 (OP)
>Cosmic
Forever alpha
>GNOME
Supreme bliss. The alpha and the omega of UX design. The best.
>KDE
It has improved quite a bit since KDE 6. I think it is time for give it a fair shot again. Maybe it can even replace GN--
*krashes*
....
Nevermind. I will stick with GNOME.

>>105860754 (OP)
i use unity... but if I had to choose between the three, I would choose KDE, because it is well customizable, there is more software on Qt than on GTK, and GTK on KDE looks normal when Qt on GNOME looks terrible.

>>105860754 (OP)
*blocks you're path*

i3

>>105860839
I give up

>>105860839
XFCE is not an option because it is not compatible with Wayland yet!!

>>105860839
*sets up a mouse trap*

>>105860754 (OP)
I'll use COSMIC when its stable.

for me it's hyprland

>>105860754 (OP)
>Cosmic
lol
>KDE
clutter
>Gnome
simple and effective

>>105861051
If you mind share your setup (File Manager, Terminal, Statusbar, Notification, etc)

>>105861069
>file manager
kde's dolphin but i never use it
>terminal
wezterm
>statusbar
ags
>notification
dunst

>>105861165
> ags
Based

>>105860839
>a fucking rat

>>105860754 (OP)
KDE, until the full stable release of COSMIC.

What the hell is cosmic? Never heard of it in my life.

>>105860754 (OP)
GNOME is comfortable, might jump ship to COSMIC once it's actually usable

>>105861681
Stop living under the rock

>KDE if you are not confused about your identity
>GNOME if you're a crossdresser

>>105862405
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/08/this-week-in-kde-apps/

Cinnamon

>>105862569
What came first, a pedo or a homosexual?

>>105862580
>GNOME 48.3
almost got me

>>105860754 (OP)
KDE because it's for Windows users (like me)

>>105860754 (OP)
KDE because of VALVE

XFCE.
Maybe Omarchy in the near future

LXQt. It's just enough to get WindowMaker working with modern applications.

>>105860754 (OP)
Cosmic
KKKDE
>>>>>>
FAGNOME

I use KDE Plasma, but I would be interested in Cosmic if it were finished.

>>105860754 (OP)
I don't need DE. I kinda liked Unity forever ago when firefox and other programs had integration for it, but now it's gimped and it's Ubuntu only and Ubuntu nowadays is shittier.

>>105860754 (OP)
Cosmic > KDE >>>>>>>>>>>>> Gnome

>>105860754 (OP)
Once it's out of alpha, COSMIC. Right now, KDE.

KDE is the only sensible choice.

>>105860754 (OP)
>Which DE would you use?
KDE Plasma
>and why?
It works and is customizable

cosmic. it will kill microsoft's gnome project that's why microsoft is shitting bricks.

>>105860839
>>105863479
based

>>105866086
The only thing it has killed is my PC's SSD with all the bugs

>>105860754 (OP)
>Garbage vs. Garbage vs. Garbage
>>105860839
>>105863479
>Garbage
>>105862580
>Garbage

Openbox, FWVM, or IceWM.

>>105868168
FVWM

>>105860754 (OP)
xfce

>Cosmic
usecase?

>GNOME
Every application is themed for Gnome.
Looks good
unusable on Desktop. Need 10 extensions to get it any a usable state. They break on updates.
If relevant: Terrible gaming performance

>KDE
The best of the worst.
Fast, configurable, ugly.

If anyone wants to break the universe we need to combine KDE with GNOME -> KNOMED

>>105860754 (OP)
Xfce4 + i3wm

>>105868620
>KNOMED
sounds dangerously close to pic rel

>>105868168
dwm

>>105860839

>https://github.com/orgs/pop-os/projects/23/views/1
>53 issues still left before the beta can be released
Cosmic-bros...

>>105860754 (OP)
KDE just because that's the only real Qt desktop project available, Lxqt is too bare-bones and janky, everything else uses Gtk.
I don't trust Gtk or Gnome because it's RedHat, and I don't trust RedHat because it's a cloud company making a desktop, it won't be long 'til most of Linux is basically just Open-Source Windows