Cleanest desktop environment for linux

[penguin1]

Looking for a clean desktop environment for Pop_os. Eventually  I will probably switch to Manjaro once I get better with linux. I like the look of KDE plasma, but what are some others that look really good? I am going to use it on my gaming pc so it can be a little resource dependent. (ryzen 7 3700x and 2x 1080tis in sli)

[kelvinhall05]

Define "cleanest"

 

 

I would say riced Plasma, i3, or Awesome, but basically anything can be considered (or configured) to be "clean".

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, penguin1 said:

Looking for a clean desktop environment for Pop_os. Eventually  I will probably switch to Manjaro once I get better with linux. I like the look of KDE plasma, but what are some others that look really good? I am going to use it on my gaming pc so it can be a little resource dependent. (ryzen 7 3700x and 2x 1080tis in sli)

Voyager XFCE

[Luis Javier]

I would suggest you to change distro instead of changing the desktop enviroment of pop os, as not everything will work fine, you can make it work with some tinkering but for the "I will probably switch to Manjaro once I get better with linux" I assume you are not a power user of linux, so change distro or use a theme that fits your concept of clean. I would suggest you to try elementary os, wich for me is very clean and is debian based as pop os.

[TorC]

Pantheon

 

Moksha

 

Both look really good, to me.

[gardotd426]

I'm not sure what you mean by "clean." Obviously the actual cleanest DE is probably GNOME, as it's just a blank desktop with a small black topbar with no icons or launchers or anything like that. That's about as minimal as you can get (outside of tiling window managers, but you said desktop environment, which eliminates tiling WMs).

 

If you mean "what's the most gorgeous DE?" which is what I suspect since you said "it can be a little resource heavy" and that's not really a thing for actually "clean" DE's, then the answer is by FAR the Deepin Desktop Environment. Deepin has it's own Distro, but Manjaro and Arch provide Deepin as a DE, and Ubuntu has a(n unofficial) Deepin spin, Ubuntu DDE. Manjaro has the best interpretation, in my opinion, but if you want to try it on Pop, it's really easy, just look up how to install Deepin on Ubuntu and it's the same thing. However, Between version 15 and the next version (version 20), Deepin DE underwent a pretty huge redesign, and Pop/Ubuntu use the old v15 shit still, so I would recommend using Arch or Manjaro. I wouldn't recommend using Deepin the distro, since it's based on Debian and has really old packages. 

 

After Deepin, KDE is probably has the most potential to look gorgeous, and is what I daily drive at the moment. KDE can look just absolutely stunning. 

 

Here are some pictures of Deepin v20:

 

 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

20 hours ago, penguin1 said:

Eventually  I will probably switch to Manjaro once I get better with linux. 

Manjaro is easier to use than Pop in my opinion, especially if you want a different desktop, as Manjaro offers a wide selection of preinstalled desktops.