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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