I know Gnome is the default on popular distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, Rhel, Pop OS (it’s Cosmic Desktop yes but it is still based on Gnome)…etc. But Gnome just doesnt work for me. I would pick XFCE - stable and no BS.
Before Manjaro and their cetificate shenanigan, I used to use their XFCE version. At the time, it was marketed as the “Flagship Manjaro version”. I went 4 years without any problems and I did tinker a lot, just couldnt get their XFCE to break.
After a tough Arch or Gentoo installs, I just want to put XFCE on and call it a day.
What about you guys?
Why did you pick DK among the “same kind” ones? (like i3wm, which is what I currently use)
DK is really small, and doesn’t try to do anything other than manage windows, and has a very simple shell script for configuration. I use sxhkd, polybar, and bemenu (with a frequency script) for everything else that I need.
I ran sway for a few months but it was missing one crucial ability that I’ve grown used to, which is to rotate the windows through the stack.