I only do these tier lists once a year for Desktop environments, and once a year for #Linux distros, but I felt it was time to take a look at how things stand, and I ended up with pretty strange rankings...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiluQ6dJyL8

Ranking Linux desktop environments for 2026 !

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@thelinuxEXP

I have to agree with the Gnome take. I generally do like Gnome. I do like to set it up so that it looks a bit like Unity; that also happens to be how I set up my Cosmic.

@keithnator3000 @thelinuxEXP gnome is the only DE that doesn't make me hate using it. It has a few design decisions that I don't understand (taking away the dock and the maximize/minimizing buttons) but it only takes a few seconds to install the extensions that modify that to my liking.