I’m a simple person. I see KDE, I upvote.

GNOME, for sure. It works out of the box, and it’s kind of pretty out of the box.

I also tried it on a touch screen PX and it works surprisingly well.

Default GNOME (Wayland), it just works

KDE forever!

Love me some Cinnamon. Specifically what comes out of default Linux Mint. It isn’t trying to do more than it already is. As cool as tech is I wish I didn’t need to care about Wayland or X11. I just want it to launch applications, feel like the windows I used as a kid, and stay out of my way. Cinnamon does this all for me. And since freaking high school mint has been there trying to do that.

KDE is love, KDE is life

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.

i3 / Sway with Albert or dmenu or rofi

I just love keeping my hands on the keyboard

KDE Plasma on desktop

Cinnamon on (older lower spec) laptop

KDE

I’ve got used to XFCE.

Mine is MATE:

It’s still GNOME 2, but I see no problem with that, it works and I’m used to it and I like traditional desktops. I don’t need (or care about) round borders or those on/off switches of modern desktops, that make them look like phone screens turned 90°.

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

GNOME, with a little bit of extension customisability!

Gotta be KDE for a full featured DE.

But using Sway for now.