WetGeek The best Linux desktop is the one that best fits a user's needs and preferences.

By the way, I did read the Tech Radar article - every word - and enjoyed it thoroughly. I recommend it as a guide for anyone who's still searching for a DE that meets their needs and preferences. It's well written, well edited, and unlike the impression that the title gives, the article does not insist that any one DE is the "best" for every user.

I am a bit surprised that it has one glaring omission, though.

      I have to admit I'm planning to try out budgie again. I'm getting a little sick of the Gnome drama.

        WetGeek By the way, I did read the Tech Radar article - every word - and enjoyed it thoroughly. I recommend it as a guide for anyone who's still searching for a DE that meets their needs and preferences. It's well written, well edited, and unlike the impression that the title gives, the article does not insist that any one DE is the "best" for every user.

        eh. I thought it was all lightweight fluff (lxqt and enlightenment over most DEs? really?) but it was nice to see Josh's baby get some love.

          Sebastian Then Cosmic DE might be something for you.

          While I do like Budgie a lot, KDE Plasma just fits my needs best. Both my EndeavourOS install and my Solus install are running that. I must admit, I'm eager to try Cosmic once it's released and relatively stable.

              UncleSpellbinder Yeah, every now and then I log into Cosmic on my Fedora machine. And while it is far from ready, it is already impressive.
              I tried to build it on Solus, but I unfortunately do not have enough RAM for that.

                riffer I try not to listen to the GNOME drama. I prefer its overall design and workflow more than a traditional desktop. I'm one of those weirdos that actually likes vanilla GNOME without extensions.

                  I keep jumping back and forth between Solus Budgie and Archlinux, as stated from others, Solus is the best implementation of the budgie desktop, I have been using Solus budgie since their initial public release back in 2015. for Archlinux I really do like the cinnamon desktop, and think that it is a very much an under rated desktop, I also enjoy throwing windows managers on Solus, AwesomeWM, SpectreWM ect.. and most recently the Nimdow window manager, only because I have been playing around with the Nim programming language of late, and to see if its actually possible as some of the window managers and dependencies are not in the Solus repo and needs to manually built and installed

                    DrunkenAlcoholic when I gave bwspm a spin, Solus had all the packages from taskbar to compositor in the repo and their dependencies. Are you doing something advanced?

                    PS--when people get bit by the WM bug (I have no idea what the diff is between TM and DM) they really get bit. I thought I had the bug too but I realized it was a lot of work and I'd be better off taking a feature-rich DE and minimizing its heft. I'm better at subtracting than adding🙂. Stay bit!

                        brent between TM and DM

                        TM = Transcendental Meditation
                        DM = Direct Messaging

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