What motivates you to choose a DE/WM?

[amlug]

I am curious about what motivates a user to choose and then stay with a particular Desktop or Window Manager. There a many Desktops (KDE, Gnome, etc.) and WM (Fluxbox, Awesome, etc.). Often starts as a de-wm-hopper and finally finds the right one. Later, if any changes, there are features and functions that must be included.

1. What three distinctive features do I like most? (speed, modular, location of buttons, etc.)

2. What three functions (things that it does) do I like most?

3. Missing features or functions we would like to have?

[j2mcgreg]

I stay with XFCE because i can get my work done without it getting in my way. I have tried KDE, Fluxbox, Gnome, etc, but I have yet to find a compelling reason to switch.

[thinkpadx]

looks, efficiency, functionality.

[baldyeti]

It needs to say "kde" or "plasma" on the label. Seriously no DE is magically going to make one 10x (or even 2x times) more efficient/productive.

A long, long time ago i briefly left KDE (3 at the time) for gnome2 in the hope that ubuntu might become a viable alternative to MS-Windows or MacOS. That did not pan out. Nowadays, we have diversity, fun and ... fragmentation.

[oops]

I stay with a light WM/DE IceWM (and with my same custom menus) since MX17 -and antiX17. I see no change into my environment even into MX23.

(and I sometime try the others DE/WM into VirtualMachines)

[Paul..]

I stay with XFCE because i can get my work done without it getting in my way. I have tried KDE, Fluxbox, Gnome, etc, but I have yet to find a compelling reason to switch.

Well said...
+1

[richb]

Extensive configuration capabilities. Hence KDE Plasma for me through its very capable Settings Manager

[rijnsma11111]

I stay with XFCE because i can get my work done without it getting in my way. I have tried KDE, Fluxbox, Gnome, etc, but I have yet to find a compelling reason to switch.

Well said...
+1

Yes, my idea. XFCE is the max possible for me too.
Which does not mean I could not work wiith another one.
For instance MATE, but that one is much less configurable.
And Cinamon, KDE etc. are also nice, but they feel a little handheld-like.

[amlug]

Thanks, interesting. Can we be more specific, for example....

I can get my work done without it getting in my way.

What does it mean?.... moving windows to workspaces, or minimized into icons, or easily loading the needed application, or ???

Extensive configuration capabilities

What configuration part in particular?

Looks, efficiency, functionality.

Any particular function you really like and why?

[j2mcgreg]

@amlug wrote:

What does it mean?

It means that I can set it up the way I want with minimal effort and never have to make another adjustment for the life of that release.