[arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

[Ralf Mardorf]

IIRC, I won't read the thread again, all the mentioned WMs and DEs have
a past and most likely a future. You might have noticed another thread,
"plasma 5 crashing". The bloated DEs, especially GNOME and KDE do not
provide a steady work-flow. New major releases often are released before
they are stable, but again, even if those releases would be stable,
the way they work changes and breaks the work-flow. I don't know if a
version of LXDE still will be based on GTK in the future or if they will
completely switch to Qt, the Internet might inform about this. You
shouldn't worry about the future, you should care about your needs
regarding configuration files, the work-flow, how the DE interacts with
your computer usage. It perhaps wouldn't be smart to chose a 3D DE, if
your install is based on linux-rt.