Good day amazing people! I just want to say I have been using CachyOS as my main for a while now and I am impressed and want to thank the developers for all their hard work.
I have a question that I can’t seem to get answered, in your opinion what DE would you suggest and why?
I am currently on KDE and mostly use my Desktop for browsing, documentation, and gaming.
I appreciate your input on the matter
Personally, I like KDE way more then Gnome.
KDE does implement quite much faster new protocols/features. Sometimes these new features have issues (see recent triple buffering) but the KDE Team does really quick fix them commonly.
At Gnome, there is more like a really long time, till something gets merged (with long, i mean 1-4 years). This makes the implementation, when available then better then KDE (when they merge it quite faster) ,but I think for modern hardware its better to have new features - but it depends on the person.
Also, Gnome feels basically not useable and only if you put a bunch of extensions in. The problem on that: Extensions are breaking each major version.
For basic usage there is not really difference if you use kde or gnome in my opinion.
But as said KDE is way faster to implement new stuff, sometimes they are little buggier but they have patches every few weeks so fixes also land quickly.
I was always on KDE, until I tried Gnome…and then I still tried to go back to KDE only to change it to Gnome again. With couple of extensions you can make it look the way you want and to me it just looks and feels better. I do basic stuff and also play games. Never had any problem.
Give it a try, people have different opinions 
I have the opposite. Tried gnome once and never again. Always KDE.
For me GNOME was always more stable. Yes extensions can break at major version updates. But if you wait a few days/weeks usually the most important extensions get updates. KDE has a bunch of stuff that can break and make your desktop unusable, in this regard gnome’s simplicity is an advantage, because you can just disable the extension or find alternative. KDE complaints were more frequent than the gnome ones since KDE 6 came out. Just check the endeavourOS topics.
Kde 6 was a complete redesign compared to Kde 5. Of course it was going to have bugs but the redesign was made so it would not break quite as hard as its predecessor did when you encountered bugs. They have been fixing bugs at a considerably faster rate this time around.
GNOME because it looks better
KDE.
Gnome may look pretty, but the flow is confusing, especially when switching between apps.
Oh, and KDE has less RAM usage than Gnome.
Imho KDE looks more windows meanwhile GNOME looks more MacOs
This is tuff one I like KDE for some parts it has better battery optimization for laptops and I actually use KDE for on desktop machines and Gnome more on laptops. I feel like gnome on laptops using touchpad and others make huge difference on usability on gnome and feel kde is not so there yet.
So for me laptops Gnome
Desktops KDE
I use both. I use KDE on the desktop and Gnome with the laptop. I like using both to be honest. I started with KDE3, back in the day with Slackware 12. I have used Gnome on Ubuntu and Fedora a fair bit as well. I generally find both satisfactory for my daily usage. For me, I want my desktop environment to create the least amount of friction with my workflow. KDE6 however, is absolutely lovely. The devs and designed have done such a stellar job!
Thanks to everyone’s replies, it made me test both extensively. I ended up using GNOME with 2 extensions (Dash to Dock and ArcMenu) and it’s a lovely workflow, all the apps look uniform and the settings are better structured (in my opinion) and remote desktop just works out of the box.
When I was testing KDE I wouldn’t say I liked the workflow, reminded me too much of Windows, not all Apps looked the same and the settings were always a mission to find anything (Yes I know there is a search, but to use it to find a simple setting constantly is not intuitive), furthermore kwin would crash on me every 2 hours when playing games, I tried it on 2 separate installs to make sure it was not something I have done (I have noticed the same on my steam deck, however, it is using stock SteamOS but it is also running KDE)
When I transitioned to Linux a few months ago this was one of the first things I had to understand, that the DE doesn’t have much to do with the distribution honestly. I’m using KDE and am learning to configure it the way I want but I initially liked Gnome bc I thought it looked sleek. It was a bit limited in some things I wanted to implement even with the tweaks so I went back to KDE (and that was aside from the fact that the Gnome DE I use at work is a RHEL variant of Gnome as it is, so it didn’t even look the same).
KDE its customizable,modular etc i like that
Gnome i dont rlly like their consistent design philosophy
I can’t understand how anyone can use plain gnome. Pop_OS and Ubuntu’s Gnome are good for me, but once I’ve switched to KDE Plasma, I can’t go back. Maybe if I had it on a tablet or used the touchscreen more, it would be a better fit. But the beauty of Linux is that you can choose what works for you.
kde is by the devs for all the users
gnome is by the devs , for the minority only https://conduct.gnome.org/
they think that racism against white or men is allowed cause they have privileged … (im not white) and to me this is disgusting to think like this.
drama aside : i found that kde have more performances in game (including nvidia+wayland)
you can theme it, you can have the “gnome workflow” and much more.
but i anderstand what gnome devs are making : something that doesnt break, that is consistent (so they avoid freedom of tweakering) , and that is simple to use for everybody. And they do it well
if i would recommend a DE to my grandma it would be budgie/gnome/cinnamon
but for anybody who wants hes DE to suit hes needs perfectly and have time to set it up : kde
We are lucky to have such a variety of De on linux.
I’ve been using a tweaked gnome for the main a very good amount of time, which so far I still find better than KDE.
I recently made a clean install to KDE, it had it sets of problems / bugs that needed handling plus a bunch of configuration to reach a decent point of usage. Still not finished there.
But the overall flow I find gnome faster and responsive even with all the tweaks applied to both.
I tried a game, the fps seems lower. But it seems more responsive on this part, almost like when I disable the Allow the windows manager to control the windows on Wine.
I found KDE slower to open apps, there is a bit of delay. Network Ethernet seems to not work after the machine entering sleep mode, only after a restart. I find the settings and overall theme not very attractive for daily usage even though there are options to change, I didnt find any very well polished.
I am considering going back and use gnome. I got to a point on gnome that had almost no issues. Though it is surely slower on the features.
It might be that the better responsiveness in games part is related to gnome not yet implemented the tearing protocol. It doesnt really matter much though, unless you are a gamer in the main part, still for single players are enough and decent for multiplayer I guess.
Can’t use Gnome for gaming on a high DPI monitor. Absolutely need 150% scaling.
New KDE plasma on Wayland handles best multi-monitors with different display resolutions.