Linux

KDE if it was less buggy.

I've got used to XFCE.

It's between XFCE for it's simplicity and KDE for it's Wayland support for me

I keep wanting to try out vanillaOS and everytime I liveboot it, I immediately regret my decision. I cannot stand Gnome.
I love KDE, I love it for how versatile, intuitive and customizable it is.
Bot to mention, I rarely experience any bugs. It just works.

KDE + bismuth

Budgie is cool

i3wm at work and at home

BSPWM and Polybar because I am too lazy to figure out eww and I use KDE as a backup in case anything breaks lol

@fugepe I can live with KDE, Cinnamon, Xfce, Gnome, Lxqt., Mate... I am using KDE right now but I like Xfce more than others...

Kde because it has a really useful and functional out of the box tools, being dolphin and connect the most useful ones for me.

Never had an issue since last year, but yeah, was buggy as hell.

Mate if I want more juice from a not so good pc, and xfce for the low end ones.

KDE - using it with Manjaro now, but also used it on Mint before that.

I like Gnome. It is very usable out of the box and requires the least amount of work to get it to my liking. I am current running pop_os' cosmic version of gnome though I also enjoyed vanilla-ish(that is with 2-3 extensions) version of gnome with fedora. If only mutter starts officially supporting vrr when using wayland

I'm not huge into customising desktop environments, so when I've tried window managers like i3, I typically only get it functional to my likings and then realise how boring I am compared to how others use it.

So typically I use gnome or kde, but I like cinnamon and xfce as well. I don't really have a favourite, they're all good. At the minute I am trying to adopt wayland and have been using gnome while I do that.

Xfce overall, but I like MATE a lot as well. Just give me a traditional desktop experience, I don't need mobile-like options on a desktop.

I actually switched to MATE primarily because I like its suite of software a bit more (calculator, file manager, file archiver) than Xfce's, though I use some of MATE's stuff (Caja mainly) on Xfce on my laptop.

Not a DE but AwesomeWM. I like its default aesthetic and it's highly extensible using Lua which gives a lot of power to the user.

Xfce, Gnome or just a WM like Sway.

KDE + Latte dock is what I use. Very simple and minimalistic setup with no widgets.

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

SwayFX (Sway with a bit more eye candy effects)

KDE for my main and XFCE for my lower powered systems or VM's

KDE. It's pretty good these days. I used it in 1999 when it was new. I used it in 2009 when it was messy. I didn't use it for about a decade, opting instead for tiling window managers and plain cwm(1) on OpenBSD.

I finally installed it again in 2021 and it's been fine. Solid desktop, does what I need it to, but requires a lot of configuration up front to not be annoying. I want simple and consistent, with double click to open things and single click to highlight, and I don't want a popup dialog box in the corner every time my Konsole bell rings. I want animations and transparency, but I don't want to wait a half a second for my window to minimize. I don't want workspaces, just like I didn't want a cashew in the corner of my screen 15 years ago. If I tell my dock to be floating, it needs to stay floating and not change its shape and size when I maximize my window.

KDE requires some tweaking out of the box so that it stays out of the way. But once set up, it's nice.

3.5.10 was the best KDE ever, but I'm on 5.27 and I don't have any complaints.

sway + bemenu for building my own utilities

btw what distro are my fellow sway users on? i'm loving the control i get over what i install with gentoo

how is everyone interacting with audio, networking, bluetooth?

I don't have a favorite. I use Cinnamon because it disappoints me the least.

xfce if i had to run a desktop environment, but i usually stick with dwm and haven't got around to trying wayland yet

I use Gnome at work and KDE at home. I like the workflow in Gnome and the customization of KDE.

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

XFCE, while it doesn't have all the fancy animations and such it is incredibly customizable while still being super light weight.

Xfce, didn't try KDE yet, using gnome currently.

I have been using cinnamon for many years. For the last 2 y it is xfce for me.

Simple, reliable and stable, low in resources, does the work well.

Kde for the win!

Pop_OS underneath with Regolith (basically a pre-configured i3) on top.

My very first WM was Blackbox, back in 2000, and I imprinted on it like a baby duck, so today I still mostly use Fluxbox. It's abandoned and unmaintained, but still works (for now). It's very minimalist and lightweight. When it finally dies completely I guess I'll finally learn how to use a tiling WM.

(I use Gnome on a laptop with a HiDPI screen, because that was too annoying to configure correctly on Fluxbox. It's... fine. I added a bunch of customisations and it mostly stays out of my way, which is what I want in an environment.)

No matter what WM/DE I use, I always add a dropdown / "quakelike" terminal application -- I previously used Yakuake, but switched to Guake. It uses a hotkey to show / hide a terminal (and you can use multiple tabs, and multiplexers inside the tabs). I can't live without this, and I highly recommend it if you often find yourself hunting around for your terminal window.

I personally like Mate, especially with i3 as the window manager.

Been a gnome guy for the past ~13 years with a bit of unity thrown in back when it was relevant! I've tried to love KDE repeatedly over the years but it's never quite clicked with me - the customisation is great, but using it just feels kinda wrong personally!

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.