XFCE. It’s simple, configurable, and most importantly, efficient. The only other desktop environment I ever liked enough to actually use is Cinnamon, but I can’t get that on Gentoo anymore (it got dropped from Portage due to a general lack of maintainership).

Plasma all the way! It is customizable, sleek, fast, and has a great community behind it. It also doesn't throw stones in your way when you try to do something that doesn't strictly adhere to the developers' ideology (GNOME does this).

If I may also recommend a distribution, openSUSE is still the definite edition of a KDE Plasma distribution :) There's the Argon and Krypton live CDs with the latest releases.

I use GNOME. It is very simple and minimalistic, has an amazing and intuitive workflow with a keyboard-centric design, making it very fast and easy to work with. Flathub provides a nice ecosystem of apps that fit perfectly into the GNOME experience. And with the release of GNOME 40, we finally have great touchpad gestures on Linux (which was long overdue).

I use i3wm bcz it's a window manager, and lightweight and customisable, and I can almost add shortcuts for everything, and it's a manual tailer, so I can choose where and how the next window be, finally it's configuration is completely understandable and simple

Probably this is the only window manager, that can add or remove keybindings on the move,
Ex:

modes

1. Normal mode have default keys
2. Resize mode will have the resize keys to increase or decrease the window sizes,
3. Gap mode will have gap keys to increase the gaps or decrease the gaps,

LXDE. I switched to debian but I found out too late they don't have qtile in their official repositories, so I went with LXDE because I know they use openbox as the window manager. Now, qtile and openbox are very different but for my specific workflow that doesn't have a big impact.

I have dual boot with KDE and GNOME because I like both of them and I’m not able to take a final decision. I’m waiting to try GNOME 40 and see if having the horizontal virtual desktops (like KDE) helps me to decide which one is for me.

I used GNOME for the last 3-4 years because it's the default desktop env. Recently, I dove into i3wm because I wanted my stuff always at the same place and have more customization.

I couldn't be more pleased by a desktop env than with i3wm. When I log in my browser, IDE, Slack and Spotify all open in their seperate workspace and I can retrieve them with Mod+ so I can finally ditch the ****** alt+tab. I also like how you can rearrange the windows of a workspace: you can put them stacked on top of each others, side by side dividing your spaces how you want, etc.

I use gnome. Actually, I haven't found my Linux yet, but currently gnome serves me well.Having a terminal already makes me very happy. I am just having problems with some updates, that I am having to reinstall several (apps) instead of just updating.I like a nice design, but I also don't give up high customization power. For now I am very satisfied.

I used xfce for years, it is solid and good workspace control. I took a short period with i3, workspaces take on a new meaning and core to its function. Today I am using Gnome, the new approach to task management is interesting.

I found i3 was very primative on its application launch. Not having a menu to launch applications is a problem for me, I don't always know everything. I also had to change out the default launcher so I could launch applications with names I knew. It just can't find apps as well as gnome-do.

I use GNOME. I love that it's keyboard-centric and has pretty good shortcuts.

I use XFCE, because it is simple and unobtrusive. I considered switching to Enlightenment or LXQT at some point, but never really got around to do so.

1. It's light.
2. It's customizable. With a good theme it looks stunning.
3. It's light!

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i3wm + polybar
Incredibly comfortable to manage windows and jump between workspaces

XFCE.
It's like plasma but lighter and equally personalizable