• Favourite: GNOME
• Honourable Mention: Stable Hybrid Release (SHR) for OpenMoko
• Least Favourite: dwm
• First: twm or maybe fvwm95 on Slackware 96
• Current: GNOME
• Longest Used: GNOME
• Future: GNOME

In the 1990s I also used IceWM and Enlightenment. My first DE was KDE, but I have been using GNOME pretty consistently for twenty years.

Hurray!

Social democrats and democratic socialists are not the same thing.

Social democrats are liberals who want to improve conditions under capitalism.

Democratic socialists want to replace capitalism with worker ownership of the means of production by means of electoral politics instead of a revolution.