Arch Linux Desktop Choices

[Anteaus]

Which desktop do you prefer for Arch Linux? I've been using Gnome but I'm not too happy with it. Thinking about trying KDE Plasma 5 tonight. If anyone has any opinions please share them. Also, is there anything out there that is has comparable capabilities to Unity in regards to visual eye candy?

 

[Essence_of_War]

Plasma5 is a full-featured, all the eye-candy, desktop environment. It's comparable to Unity.

If you want something a little off the beaten path you could try Enlightenment:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Enlightenment

https://www.enlightenment.org/

I really like Pantheon for my laptop, but I have no idea if it's stable anywhere but ElementaryOS.

 

[lxskllr]

Don't use arch, but I don't think the distro matters much. I like Xfce, and usually have e17 installed to play with. Lxde is nice too for something light.

 

[Jodell88]

Not sure what you don't like about Gnome but there's KDE, XFCE, MATE, Enlightenment, Cinnamon in the official repos.

Many others are in the AUR.

 

[Anteaus]

Not sure what you don't like about Gnome but there's KDE, XFCE, MATE, Enlightenment, Cinnamon in the official repos.

Many others are in the AUR.

I installed Plasma 5 and really liking it. Gnome was ok but it just felt less polished. It's highly subjective so it isn't a slight to Gnome. I like that there are so many options.

 

[DidelisDiskas]

One of the window managers, because i like a lean system when using arch.

 

[MrColin]

I prefer Xfce for desktop linux. I haven't ever used Arch. I usually set ti up to have one panel on the left edge of the screen. If you're into the eye candy though, cinnamon has it.

 

[Anteaus]

Thanks for the advice everyone. After trying different setups I ultimately settled with Antergos/Gnome for now. I didn't even know about Antergos when I started this thread.
Antergos/Plasma is nice but Antergos' default gnome configuration is really well done. Word of caution though; I'm having performance issues with Gnome that I didn't have with Plasma.