Desktop Environments (DE)

Plasma (KDE)

  • .

  • KDE Plasma .

  • Options everywhere.

  • "Too complex".

  • "Customize anything".

  • "Plasma Plasma Plasma, better than Windows in EVERY SINGLE WAY".

  • Distros :

    • Default:

      • KDE neon.

      • openSUSE (Tumbleweed & Leap)

      • KaOS

      • Nitrux

    • Offered as an Official Edition:

      • Fedora KDE Spin

      • Manjaro KDE

      • Debian

      • Arch Linux

      • Ubuntu (via Kubuntu)

~Cosmic

  • It's in alpha.

  • Not much freedom.

  • Wayland.

  • Cosmic .

  • Distros :

    • Exclusive to Pop!_OS.

      • "System76 has expressed interest in making Cosmic available on Arch Linux, Fedora, and others."

  • Impressions :

    • Pretty.

~Cinnamon

Budgie

  • Budgie .

  • Gnome based, created in "response to Gnome".

  • "Doesn't seem polished".

  • Impressions :

    • Nah.

Gnome

  • Gnome .

  • "Refuse to let you configure anything".

  • "Basic options are not available".

  • Impressions :

    • Ok, pretty.

    • Kind of mobile.

    • Low configuration, therefore, NO.

Xfce

  • Xfce .

  • Xfce .

  • "Old school".

  • Distros :

    • Mint.

  • Impressions :

    • Meh.

    • Kind of basic, looks like a light modernization of something oldschool.

LXQT

  • LXQT .

  • LXQT .

  • Evolution of LXDE.

  • Impressions :

    • Meh.

    • Kinda unpleasant, too oldschool. Nope.

    • I would use Plasma instead of this, for sure.

Mate

  • Mate .

  • Mate .

  • Old school.

  • No support for many things.

  • Gnome can replicate the whole look.

  • Impressions :

    • Done.

PiXel

  • Default of Raspberry Pi.

  • Oldschool, minimalist.

  • Similar to Mate.

  • Very focused on Raspberry Pi.

  • Use KDE Plasma for the Raspberry Pi, it's better.

  • Performance :

    • Use Cinnamon or PiXel for performance on an old Raspberry Pi.

Deepin

  • It's also a distro

  • Deepin Desktop Enviroment .

  • "Not full featured, just proof of concept".

  • "Reminds Gnome, but with even fewer options".

  • Impressions :

    • Nope.

Cutefish

  • "Kinda dead".

  • Laggy.

  • No way.

Pantheon

  • Nah.

  • "Bad Mac clone".

Unity

  • Nah.

  • Dead.

LXDE

  • Nah.

  • Dead.

  • Old school.