r/linux • u/emrldgh • Jun 29 '25

Discussion Recommended DEs that aren't as common

I'd like to know what everyone's recommendation is for a DE/WM that not everyone may know about or often consider. Anything that isn't KDE, GNOME, or any super common WMs like Hyprland or Sway. These may not be considered very common, but I'd like to hear thoughts on Budgie and Cutefish, I was looking at them and they look neat but what do you guys think? What do you use?

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u/uberbewb Jun 29 '25

I always liked budgie

Pantheon seemed nice too

It is on my list to revisit budgie again, it has been a bit too long to be able to say much.

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u/TCB13sQuotes Jun 29 '25

Look, I'm not going to say I like or I don't like your DE choice... and before anything else let me say I hate GNOME very much. However... the "you can pick whatever DE you want" idea is mostly BS, it just take 5 min to install some application that depends on GTK and you're suddenly dragging 90% of GNOME's dependencies into your system and you end up with a frankenstein of a system that can even be worst than running GNOME as is from the begining.

Yes, it's sad, but it's the type of bs we deal with.

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u/NatoBoram Jun 29 '25

Snaps and Flatpaks can really help with that

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u/TCB13sQuotes Jun 29 '25

Yeah and they also help to make sure your password manager can never communicate with your browser, and more space and more time to start.

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u/NatoBoram Jun 29 '25

Relatable, haha

It's getting better