Window Manager. Which one?: LeftWM. Why? More flexble

i use KDE, and i prefer using a desktop environment. a DE has everything already preconfigured, so that it's usable right out of the box. window managers need to configured right after installation since they don't have stuff like taskbars, and sometimes they don't even have default shortcuts except for the terminal.

Cinnamon (DE) on one PC, Hyprland (WM) on another because yes.

DE. Cinnamon. Nice coherent user experience, bit of eye candy and all the tools I need without unnecessary bells and whistles.

gnome (vanilla), by intentional lazyness. It's the least effort path, it's the most tested on my distro, minimizing the risk of bad surprise during upgrades. While I had to get acostumated to its UX at the beginning (years ago), I now feel productive since then, and ended up enjoying it, though without comparing with others.

KDE. Nothing else compares.

DE, it gets out of my.

DE, because usually is pretty out of the box. I'll never get the eye candy as anything like GNOME DE with some extensions. Speaking of... which is your fav DE for eye candy? (if resources were not a problem)

- DE, usually Gnome 4x with a bunch of extensions (such as Arc Menu & DesktopCube) added, if its on a nicely spec'd system - or Budgie, XFCE, Lomiri or Phosh once in a while, on less powerful devices, as well.

I love both for different purpose, for laptop i would prefer DE gnome but for desktops i would prefer WM. Me personally use WM Bspwm

For the longest I used xfce on latest Debian stable. But for some reason the Bluetooth was not showing up nor was the user credential changer. So I switched back to gnome. I love xfce for how light weight it is. I even ran it on a beefy setup 8cors 32gb of ram etc

Look at you young whippersnappers, with all your new fangled gizmos. Real men just need a #teletype and paper tape to do the work. No fancy shmancy #GUI. 🤡 no really. Isn't a windows manager a component of a desktop environment ?! #i_am_confusion !!!

In my understanding a WM is part of a DE, isn't it?
I use mutter on Gnome on Fedora, btw.

I prefer Wayland compositors, I Recently switched to niri and I love it.

minimal vanilla gnome with some extensions. Because my computer needs to help me, not to stand in my way.

KDE is the base environment on my main system.
For daily work in virtualized environments, I always use a window manager—typically DWM, and lately I've been really enjoying Niri.

Window manager. Fvwm for more than 30 years now. I tried, but haven't found anything else that serves my needs as well.

xfce. Light and simple. Does the job.

I use Hyprland, for my workflow it's the most efficient one. I riced it in such a way that I don't even have to touch the mouse.

window manager #dwm

Window Manager. I love Hyprland. While I do love KDE, it has so many unnecessary for me options and bulk, that is not usable for me, especially on older laptops. With a window manager you get flexibility and just the things that you need for your use case. I chose Hyprland because I wanted to stay ahead of the curve and use Wayland. Everything I need just works on Hyprland! I use Arch-based CachyOS.

GNOME; need things just to work, no time for customizing because I'm employed lol.

I would say desktop environment. After doing some distro hopping to find what I like, it has turned out to be the desktop environment and software store / package manager that drive my decision on what I am using. I don't think that I have used a straight up window manager that did not come from a desktop environment (example: install icewm on a distro that did not come with it).

WM. Always a WM. The last time I used a full-blown DE as such was in the KDE3 days.
My WM-of-choice is AwesomeWM. And as for why... In the early 2000s when I was learning HTML, I realized that my 'Dream Desktop' would be just like a HTML page - no fixed structures, everything user-scriptable. And AwesomeWM is the closest thing to that ideal I've seen so far.

Gnome because it's simple and intuitive. And it looks great, although that's a matter of taste.

I want to use a WM so badly, but every time I try I get problems because of how minimalistic they are. Not having PolicyKit, for example (swaywm)

I found my happy place on desktop, I guess I will properly try window management properly when I get screen realestate to play with.

WM, torn between Hyprland & RiverWM tho

@It's FOSS I have found Enlightenment.

A WM. I use awesomewm. Because you choose yourself how your desktop should look and work. (I like to keep it clean and simple). And it is the perfect combination of ricing and minimalism.

I'm lazy af: The one which comes by default. But if I had to choose I'd throw a coin for either KDE or Gnome. Both very lovely and well crafted Desktop Environments and I do not want to favor one over the other. Therefore random it is.

Hyprland because it increases the user's speed and is also lightweight.