I do, but that’s only because I daily a laptop. On my desktop I had hyprland. IMO a wm is not practical on anything portable. Multi monitor is a pain when I have to connect a projector, changing power modes is finicky, iwctl and bluez aren’t that practical when you operate them from anywhere and a clickable ui is more important in certain situations, so you need a DE to do all those things quickly and for them to just work®.
Between gnome, KDE, xfce and cinnamon, I ended up using gnome. I need fractional scaling, which rules out the last two, and need certain theming, which is more complicated. In my experience, the only theme that properly covers all the assets in KDE is breeze, all the other I’ve tried are incomplete, not uniform, buggy or have other problems.
Not to say gnome themes aren’t buggy, but I just had more succes with them
do people actually use Gnome?
I do, but that’s only because I daily a laptop. On my desktop I had hyprland. IMO a wm is not practical on anything portable. Multi monitor is a pain when I have to connect a projector, changing power modes is finicky, iwctl and bluez aren’t that practical when you operate them from anywhere and a clickable ui is more important in certain situations, so you need a DE to do all those things quickly and for them to just work®.
Between gnome, KDE, xfce and cinnamon, I ended up using gnome. I need fractional scaling, which rules out the last two, and need certain theming, which is more complicated. In my experience, the only theme that properly covers all the assets in KDE is breeze, all the other I’ve tried are incomplete, not uniform, buggy or have other problems.
Not to say gnome themes aren’t buggy, but I just had more succes with them