Linux

I usually use WindowMaker or FVWM but as a desktop environment... CDE

Boring old X11 Gnome for me, it looks pretty, it's reliable and it has all the stuff I'd expect out of a desktop environment

Wayland doesn't play nice with my GPU and I've heard it's not great for gaming anyway

Enlightenment

For me efficiency and less eye strain is important. I want my eyes to be at the center of the screen for the majority of my session. Gnome is my goto for that reason but any tiling windows manager would do as welll.

KDE and the windows start bar lookalikes constantly have your eyes going to the corner or sides to open and find apps.

I'm a Gnome user, with a few extensions but mostly vanilla.

xfce

River, not a DE but close enough. I could configure it in fennel without much problem.

Debian/KDE

@fugepe I use a mostly vanilla Gnome, with the exception of the Blur My Shell and Vitals extensions

barless dwl, love the simplicity

I've used gnome for years, about a month ago I decided to give KDE a try on my old spare laptop. Two days later it was on my desktop and work laptop. I am loving KDE.

KDE if I have performance to spare. XFCE if I am running this in a container on my phone.

kde

@fugepe I use Ubuntu but, is KDE easy to pick up? Just getting into Linux my self.

I like Gnome a little more than KDE.

I cannot but mention xmonad wm with my own configurations

I am on pop is for my home desktop. I like the built in tiling manager. Ubuntu for work. Might give nix or kde a go next.

TDE (for those who haven't encountered it before, the Trinity Desktop Environment forked from KDE3 more than a decade ago). It might not be the flashiest or the newest, but it has a decent selection of features and applications, and presents a traditional desktop environment whose interface doesn't get changed for the sake of change. In other words, it stays out of the way and lets me get things done.

(If I'd liked Gnome 2 better than KDE 3 rather than vice-versa, I probably would have gone for MATE instead.)

I really like KDE, but I’ve been daily driving Gnome since version 40. Insanely polished and I really like the workflow of everything. I do wish they were faster in implementing stuff like VRR though.

is anyone used herbsluftwm for low powered CPU here?

FVWM.

Um....none.

I've been using QTile for probably a year now. It's not perfect, but I like the tiled windowing and I know python.

A while back I was into KDE Plasma but for whatever reason had this bug that would cause my system to run at 100 percent at all times. When I looked into it, many stated it was a bug that related to how kde searches for stuff on the system. Dont remember much else but that had me look elsewhere.

Been on gnome for awhile now and havent had any issues.

Xfce on work desktop, gnome works well with gestures at home on my laptop. Will be changing to kde when I get a new machine at work!

bspwm + sxhkd, for years. Based on the Manjaro config at first, today it's my own setup. Even convinced may family. The best!

For me it was Enlightenment DR16 (discontinued). you could make themes with shaped borders (transparent regions, buttons and titles anywhere, even overlapping into the window a bit), have it remember window positions, change border style for a window (e.g. drawer, so it can be collapsed sideways) and it would not steal focus. it had really good effects and features. I miss it a lot in Wayland. Check the web for some screenshots, if you want to be inspired.

i3 on my laptop, gnome on my gaming rig (cuz wayland)

@fugepe Wow, not a lot of replies are saying Gnome, but there's a lot more XFCE than I thought I'd see