Desktop Environments

Note: I'm a person who gets attached to specific features, so my personal taste may not be a good indicator for general taste. So, look at Tier 3 and below.

Ones I Like - Tier 1 (Vibey)

Ones I've Tried

• Unity (based on GNOME 3)
• Deepin
• Pantheon (when on elementary OS; for Detox)

I Expect To Be Cool

• Lumina (TrueOS DE)

Ones I Like - Tier 2 (Stranger Things)

Ones I've Tried

• Trinity (KDE 3 Fork)
• Enlightenment

Ones I think I get

• Cutefish (Should be like Deepin)

Ones I need to try

• LCARS DE
• Katana (KDE 4 Fork)
• Moksha

General Public - Tier 3 (Normal Things)

Mainstream

• GNOME
• KDE Plasma
• Xfce4

Indie

• Budgie
• MATE (GNOME 2 Fork, w/ GTK 2 (now GTK+ 3 supported))
• GNOME Flashback (GNOME 2 layout on GNOME 3 w/GTK+ 3)
• GNOME Classic
• Cinnamon

Ones I Like - Tier 4 (I like a specific set of themes)

Combos

• GNOME + Zorin Themes + Zorin Icons

Icons Only

• Numix Icons

Themes Only

• Greybird GTK (Suits Xfce)

Tier 5 - Window Manager Land

Wayland

• Regolith (GNOME Shell + i3)
• nwg-shell (A shell package for all WMs)
• Hyprland
• dwl (dwm fork)
• Sway (i3 fork)
• Wayfire (3D Effects baked in)

Xorg

• i3 (Pop WM)
• dwm (Strict; Suckless WM)
• awesome (Pop; Suckless WM)
• Openbox (Classic WM)
• IceWM (Classic WM)
• Blackbox (Indie WM)
• ratpoison (Strict; Keyboard Nerds)
• bspwm (Indie WM)
• xmonad (Indie WM)
• herbstluftwm (Indie WM)
• spectrwm (Indie WM)
• Fluxbox (Indie WM)
• twm (Strict; X.org Default WM)

Both

• Qtile (Indie WM)

Historical / DE Backends

• Compiz
• Metacity
• Mutter
• KWin
• Xfwm
• Enlightenment