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I use Xfce via installing Xubuntu. I shifted to it when Gnome 2 expired and have never felt any need to change again. I like having multiple workspaces (usually four) with a simple visual switcher to mouse click between them and each having a unique wallpaper. I add a small set of custom launchers in the toolbar for the applications I use 99% of the time. That's it, I simply don't need anything else.
In my pre-Ubuntu Mandrake period I mainly used KDE3, which is where I found the wallpaper-per-workspace idea suited me. But when I shifted to Ubuntu I found Gnome 2 good enough to not bother with the Kubuntu desktop.
It's always interesting to see people contra-claiming about how "light" Xfce is or isn't - mostly quoting memory usage as the vital measure. When I do occasionally try out alternatives: Gnome, Budgie, LxQt, Plasma/KDE I mainly find that they have a lot of lag in normal usage or simply lack a feature that I consider important. That's LxQt for lacking different wallpapers per workspace. With the others for being laggy too often : my hardware is never latest-thing, so maybe that's why.
Curiously, for a long time Ubuntu user, I was never much fussed about Unity. I simply understood that it wasn't aimed at me, and as a non-beginner I could/would/should just add a DE that I preferred. No angst involved, and no reason to dump a distro over the default DE of one install option.
Eventually, I stopped installing from the plain Ubuntu then adding Xubuntu, and just installed as Xubuntu instead.
Lxqt ,Lubuntu..
Simple , fast , reliable...
Gnome with a few extensions. Its productive enough and doesn't require a lot of time investment. Most of my development flow is in the terminal anyways since I use tmux + neovim.
XFCE is lighter than GNOME 3 (and any other Mutter-based DE), but Plasma has consumed less RAM than XFCE since at least v5.17 (it's currently at v.5.21, with 5.22 on the way).
Important caveat: Latte Dock nearly doubles RAM usage on KDE. Until Latte Dock slims down, starts up faster, and sheds many bugs, I'll be sticking to the default (and extremely capable, just not nearly as featureful or pretty) Plasma panel(s).
KDE Plasma, hands down, for its infinite configurability, low RAM consumption, and beautiful appearance with little effort (none, actually, it looks great out of the box even if copying the Windows paradigm way too much). Also, no stupid CSD titlebars. And the ability to "Add new [stuff]" to pretty much every aspect of the desktop is unparalleled on any other DE on any OS.
GNOME 3/40 takes the macOS approach of "you're to stupid to decide for yourself," then tries to make up for it with perhaps the hackiest extension ecosystem ever created (they're like bandaids, if bandaids performed life-threatening surgery every time you put them on; surgery all but guaranteed to kill you if you aren't the right age, blood type, and eye color). Deepin is gorgeous, but good luck if it's not exactly the way you want it already.
Cinnamon, Budgie, Pantheon, and every other Mutter-based/GNOME 3 fork DE are pretty much do the same, just with different desktop paradigms, because GNOME 3 made it such a hacky pain to extend.
Mate and XFCE are lightweight, performant, and fairly customizable, but both still have quite a few bugs and/or lots of ugly little paper cuts, especially with panels and widgets (and XFCE's Orage "calendar" widget is a crime against humanity).
I may not be as "leet" as the "haxors" using one of the trendy tiling managers (though there are about 27 different KWin scripts for tiling windows if I want that sort of thing in Plasma), and may not be consuming as little RAM as those using LXDE/LXQT, [WHATEVER]Box, etc, but at least my desktop doesn't require hacking a config file for simple settings changes and doesn't look reminiscent of Windows 98 or older.
With that said, if Mate ever got the old GNOME 2 (formerly the most configurable desktop, from which Mate was forked) style up to date with desktop computing in this decade AND squashed bugs which have persisted since GNOME 2 AND made it easy to select KWin as the window manager, I'd be on board. For all the ridicule it received, Ubuntu's (still GNOME 2 based) pre-Unity Netbook Edition is probably the best DE that ever existed (at the very least, its full-screen menu was the best of the sort that ever existed - please stop trying to imitate macOS's Launchpad, it's really not that good).
Clean install of desktop environment (on Arch linux) seems to be best at the get go for KDE / Plasma, and not that good for Xfce.
However, both Xubuntu and Manjaro Xfce (and perhaps Mint Xfce, IIRC) had Xfce well done at the very start.
I find GNOME 3 less customizable; however, Ubuntu MATE and my memories of old Ubuntu GNOME 2 are fairly customizable.
XFCE.
It's like plasma but lighter and equally personalizable
Plasma is objectively lighter than XFCE
I have dual boot with KDE and GNOME because I like both of them and I’m not able to take a final decision. I’m waiting to try GNOME 40 and see if having the horizontal virtual desktops (like KDE) helps me to decide which one is for me.
I use gnome. Actually, I haven't found my Linux yet, but currently gnome serves me well.Having a terminal already makes me very happy. I am just having problems with some updates, that I am having to reinstall several (apps) instead of just updating.I like a nice design, but I also don't give up high customization power. For now I am very satisfied.
I use i3wm bcz it's a window manager, and lightweight and customisable, and I can almost add shortcuts for everything, and it's a manual tailer, so I can choose where and how the next window be, finally it's configuration is completely understandable and simple
Probably this is the only window manager, that can add or remove keybindings on the move,
Ex:
modes
LXDE. I switched to debian but I found out too late they don't have qtile in their official repositories, so I went with LXDE because I know they use openbox as the window manager. Now, qtile and openbox are very different but for my specific workflow that doesn't have a big impact.