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Curious which desktop choice you will make for Buster, or have already made if you are running Buster right now.

Xfce is what I typically use. I have not touched Buster yet. I've got some used parts piled up, waiting for me to try to build a useful computer. I will probably try Buster on it. I don't even know what the CPU is, right now... it's hand me down stuff.

Openbox with Tint2 if I can dist-upgrade my Stretch the way I like it, including openrc boot. If not I may stay with Stretch or look to another OS. Having explored Buster I don't see much worth upgrading for.

Still with dwm for buster

I tried to get velox working but although I installing it and got the desktop running the keybinds wouldn't work and I got frustrated and gave up after a while. Maybe I'll go back to it at a later date.

@Bulkley: Devuan beowulf works fine with OpenRC (using sysvinit as PID1) and one forum member claims to have got it working with openrc-init[1] but Debian buster won't load the input devices for the graphical desktop under OpenRC.

I will use GNOME and Sway. Mostly Sway.
Because of that, I plan on using Sid.

I have LXDE installed, which I hardly use.
everything goes over SSH

Nothing will change, Xfce.

I recently had the occasion to use Gnome3 for a while but I prefer Xfce.
No experience with KDE since ~2008.
I am curious about tiling WM though

I'm thinking I will use Buster with KDE, though tempted to use MATE as I typically do.

Plain and simple Openbox + Tint2

I'm using MATE with Buster (buster is my daily driver Debian now, for quite a while actually). I've been using MATE since wheezy, and it works very well for me - the standard panel at the top, and the Plank dock at the bottom. Very efficient and effective. I don't really care for any of the others, and I've tried them all.

I am running GNOME, Xfce, and MATE on separate hard drives. My stable of hardware prefers different desktop environments. Luckily, Debian has always covered my bases.

For me, only XFCE. Nothing else comes close.

if it means anything i am currently using budgie in sid

KDE Plasma 5 is way better in Buster than it ever was in Stretch.

sunrat wrote:KDE Plasma 5 is way better in Buster than it ever was in Stretch.

I agree. KDE is much nicer out of the box on Buster.

Still with Openbox with Tint2 and Feh on my main box.

KDE on my laptop.

openbox+xfce4panel = solution to all the problems in the world

No DE at all! Just xmonad+xmobar.

XFCE. Been using it for couple of months now. Home directory shared between Stretch and Buster. No issues so far. Once XFCE user, always a XFCE user

OT:

ravisista wrote:Home directory shared between Stretch and Buster.

That's not a good idea, the new package versions in buster may have different configuration methods so sharing $XDG_CONFIG_HOME may cause problems.