What is the most stable desktop environment?

Question

linux

I feel that I need to change KDE to something else, because sometimes it freezes so that no combinations help, only restarting the computer. I think that's what environment is the most unsupportive? Maybe XFCE? Or something different?

Answer 1

I have been constantly working in Linux for more than a year and spent the last 2 months testing various environments, I wanted to find the most convenient one for myself both in terms of work and settings.
Total:
Gnome - visually beautiful, close to the "ideal", but after a month of use, they got visual effects and a couple of small, but very important and unpleasant bugs - 1 no matter how you set up the Dashboard, you still can't achieve 100% of the desired behavior; 2 - no information about events in the application as on the taskbar, all the time you have to double-check every Skype, Slack, etc. And in Gnome, due to its javascript origins, many applets cause intermittent freezes.
LXDE- was close to ideal, very modest in resources, but lacks many important little things, especially for laptops, such as power and brightness management (don't write that everything can be added, I'm describing a ready-made kit).
LXQT - a lot of glitches in the panel and applets, I still don't understand why it is needed.
Mate is a buggy panel, some of the applications are miserable.
Cinnamon - bad panel applets, many long abandoned.
KDE is a misunderstanding.
i3 - not yet mastered, too different concept. But I strive, because this is the limit of perfection.
So I went back to XFCE- absolutely everything is configurable, good support for laptops, does not consume resources and does not take up space on the screen, a good panel and applets that are constantly being improved and new ones are added.
I would recommend Gnome for beginners - it creates a very strong visual impression and has a good UX, which has a positive effect on the desire to get off the Windows leather needle.
And one more thing: after such flexibility and convenience in Linux, Win starts to feel sick from the squalor of interfaces.

Answer 2

What is the most stable desktop environment?

KDE, XFCE.

I feel that I need to change KDE to something else, because sometimes it freezes so that no combinations help, only restarting the computer.

Either the iron needs to be changed or the gasket :)

Answer 3

Perhaps you should first figure out what causes the hang? - running out of memory? - someone ate all the disk IO?
Or do you change an apartment if your sink faucet breaks down?

Answer 4

I've been using Gnome Flashback (Gnome2) for 7-8 years --- the flight is normal, I don't want to change anything.

Answer 5

lxde, openbox, icewm

Answer 6

I have been on Linux since 2007, periodically I look at different environments, but not often. As a result, I stayed on KDE. But the most remembered as the most stable is KDE version 3.5.10 (branch 3.5, that is).
It turned out that it still exists, it is developing under the name TDE https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Desktop_Envi...
While there is no need for me to change KDE5 to TDE, everything works and never hangs, but the hardware is quite normal i5- 4670 / 8GB RAM / 240GB SSD
But sometimes I use different laptops for several months, and often I have to select the environment so that it doesn’t slow down. So, the best option for bad hardware I left on the PuppyRUS flash drive, the JWM environment. Really fast, it runs from a flash drive, you can save the session to a file on the same flash drive or on a disk. Most of the equipment picks up by itself, without any special settings (sound, network, video ...)