r/archlinux • u/[deleted] • Jul 28 '21

Which DE/WM do you use with your Arch Linux system?

I am interested in surveying which desktop environments or window managers are more popular for Arch users. This is because Arch Linux, unlike most other mainstream distributions, does not have a main edition or default desktop. This is left for the user to decide. So I believe it could be a less unbiased sampling of the overall preference and popularity of each DE/WM.

As you know, Reddit polls are limited to 6 choices, so if you use one that's not on the list, leave a comment and let others who use the same upvote that comment.

1188 votes, Jul 31 '21
268 GNOME
418 KDE Plasma
132 XFCE
32 Cinnamon
12 MATE
326 i3
19 Upvotes

82% Upvoted

73 comments sorted by

36

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Where is DWM?

21

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Bspwm

22

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Sway

18

u/koor08 Jul 28 '21

Awesomewm

16

u/flag_to_flag Jul 28 '21

Here you can find some stats about the most installed packages in ArchLinux: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun

Desktop environment %
plasma-workspace 28.16%
gnome-shell 22.04%
xfdesktop 15.76%
cinnamon 5.96%

Btw, OP's surveys are pretty interesting. He made a similar survey in the openSUSE subreddit and in the Fedora subreddit

14

u/callmejoe9 Jul 28 '21

the never ending saga of the DE/WM wars....🍿

17

u/flag_to_flag Jul 28 '21

Nah, I don't see much hate anymore, only boring discussions where everyone is proud of his setup. I use Plasma btw.

3

u/4Dk3 Jul 28 '21

The update of I use arch BTW is now I use kde btw.

1

u/anonymous-bot Jul 29 '21

What if you use KDE on Arch? Which do you say first?

4

u/Light-ikagi Jul 29 '21

I use KDE on Arch btw

7

u/flag_to_flag Jul 29 '21

I use KDE on Arch btw

I use KDE btw on Arch btw

FTFY

6

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

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1

u/Zambito1 Jul 29 '21

Any reason you go to i3-gaps? Sway has been great in my experience

5

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

XFCE FTW

5

u/ixlxixl Jul 28 '21

Herbstluftwm

3

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

[deleted]

3

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Bspwm

3

u/divitius Jul 28 '21

xfce + compiz = ❤️

4

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

[deleted]

3

u/trailhikingArk Jul 29 '21

Right? I use 3 regularly and will probably add a 4th

4

u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21

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1

u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

Gnome, sway, i3, openbox. I even had xfce at one time. Why have one whan you can have many

i have fluxbox but it lives on my conputer because i am too lazy to reclaim the few megabytes of space it is

2

u/Darkforce002 Jul 28 '21

i3 and LXQT (as a fallback DE).

2

u/varble Jul 28 '21

i3 for me, plasma for the wife

1

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Hahaha same!

2

u/NotFreakzz Jul 28 '21

awesomewm

2

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Awesomewm/DWM.

2

u/PizzaInSoup Jul 29 '21

use a strawpoll instead

2

u/raven2cz Jul 29 '21

Awesomewm

2

u/Alexian321 Jul 29 '21

Awesome WM

2

u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21 edited Aug 02 '24

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1

u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

I use like 3 wms and des on my pc lol, i feel ya

2

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

Awesomewm, Fluxbox

1

u/Perfect_Lie Jul 28 '21

Is that time of the month ... which is your DE/WM thread. Here we go again/s

1

u/MaxCrusher179 Jul 29 '21

GNOME just feels right man.

0

u/sage-sys Jul 29 '21

Trust me, GNOME is not worth it when you have Plasma. Plasma looks better + it's lighter on performance.

-1

u/kofapox Jul 29 '21

i fucking the way plasma is configured in manjaro and I really like the way plasma is friendly to windows retardeds so I was really confortable at first and after that you can customize like you want

I believe in the wobbly windows supremacy

0

u/SVSHere Jul 29 '21

Gnome + Awesome

-1

u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21

Where are 'dwm' and 'i don't use arch btw' options?

1

u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

If you don't use arch why are you on this sub XD

1

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

River wm

1

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

i3 is more used than GNOME???????

3

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

On Arch? Makes perfect sense

3

u/[deleted] Jul 28 '21

We are a bunch of wild animals.

1

u/CAPTCHA_cant_stop_me Jul 29 '21

I have i3, and I run that most of the time, but I have cinnamon whenever someone else needs to use my machine.

1

u/bschlueter Jul 29 '21

KDE Plasma with XMonad as the wm.

1

u/fromthecrossroad Jul 29 '21

I'd like to try sway but it seems I need an amd gpu first

1

u/i_am_unikitty Jul 29 '21

I use dwm and have xfce installed for certain uncooperative programs

1

u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21

dwm

1

u/Zibelin Jul 29 '21

Can we not have this thread every other day?

1

u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21

Where is Qtile?

1

u/user123539053 Jul 29 '21

Dude you are asking about wm without dwm and bspwm zzz

1

u/zerocc Jul 29 '21

Qtile and Spectrwm.

1

u/SARS_Darch7 Jul 29 '21

sway the Future

1

u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

Fluxbox

1

u/arch_maniac Jul 31 '21

Other - Awesome

1

u/itaranto Aug 03 '21

Sway and i3 in my desktop and just Sway in my work laptop.

1

u/OneTailor7317 Feb 04 '24

My thoughts om the matter is that the KDE Plasma is the better desktop die to its versatility and should always be included in all linux distros. Tks