Ask HN: What Linux Desktop Env do you use and what do you like/hate about it?

I'm on Unity on Ubuntu 16.04. It's essentially just a way for me to launch a terminal (terminator) and an IDE. There is nothing in particular that I like or dislike as it just gets the simple job done for me.

XFCE. I neither particularly like it or dislike it, but it works well enough out of the box (with Xubuntu) that I can get to work and don't feel the need to spend any time fiddling with or re-configuring it.

Im also using XFCE running on Fedora.

I usually only have Thunderbird, Firefox and terminal(zsh) open.

Sometimes I get annoyed by lack of "Just works" with certain things. I havn't really done much configuration changes from out of the box. Its been great though. Clean and simple.

No desktop env for me. I use the i3 tiling window manager and I love everything about it.

Most of the configuration stuff I do on the command line, but I do have a status bar with some basic info .

Desktop? I use tvtwm to manage my windows.