I use gnome, but it’s basically the worst DE, except all of the other ones that have been tried

It has the least features, so by default the least bugs.

Vanilla Gnome. It’s simple/boring, and I like that. It seems like most people that like Gnome don’t care that it’s not a poweruser DE, and aren’t excited to talk about it either.

Gnome with pop_os tiling window manager

GNOME, with a little bit of extension customisability!

KDE sets a really high bar with all the packages and extensibility. Almost everything (not including the lesser known and used packages) is feature-packed and just works. I really don’t know any other software that constantly amazes me like KDE.

Cinnamon. Stupidly simple and elegant looking.

KDE is love, KDE is life

I avoided GNOME3 for the longest time, but I decided to try it on a new install of Debian on a whim and actually ended up really liking it. Needed to enable a couple of extensions, but once you get used to it the workflow isn’t at all that bad.

For aesthetics: Budgie, with Cinnamon a close second For simplicity and speed: XFCE

Absolutely KDE Plasma.

I used to only use KDE or KDE plasma with i3 but after using fedora I’ve fallen hard for Gnome and the design philosophy of the project.

KDE Plasma on desktop

Cinnamon on (older lower spec) laptop

KDE

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.

i3. I mean, it’s fast, customizable, and you can make it look good. That’s all i need.