At home, I've always used KDE but am now using XFCE on the newest version Manjaro. In my opinion, its the best looking DE out there right now. At work, on my old computer I had Gnome Classic, and now using Mate.

I love KDE and Cinnamon

Xfce and Xfwm. They work, and it's too much trouble to try to change them from the default.

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+100 for ratpoison

I like Xfce. It's fast, not as newbie–crippling as FVWM, and looks nice with an Ubuntu lookalike theme.

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LXDE

Fluxbox. I'm a minimalist but openbox is a wee bit too minimal for me. Besides, I've never managed to get openbox to open apps on specific workspaces.

Ratpoison is cool... (No pun! )

Openbox + tint2

openbox is easily enhanced with a panel of your choice...

But yes, fluxbox for me as well. Mainly because it's plain text configuration is far easier to deal with (and comes with a configurable panel). I also use XFCE if I want a desktop with more 'features'.

When I used to use openbox in Crux, I combined it with pypanel. But why use a WM that requires an extra panel when fluxbox comes with a built-in one? What decided me though was that I just couldn't get my buttonbars to come up on the appropriate desktops in openbox. I like to dedicate my workspaces to particular jobs (for example workspace 2 is for Internet work and 3 for system housekeeping). I have a different buttonbar on each desk with buttons for the apps I most often launch from there. In openbox, all four bars came up on workspace 1 and I had to move them to their proper workspaces. In fluxbox, it's easy to specify in advance where they should go simply by using their window titles.

Overall, just anything that gets out of my way. I like the cube animation, but mainly for making windows weenies jealous. Fluxbox, OpenBox, FLWM, Windowmaker are all fine.

I rather wish I could easily snag and push the setup in TinyCore to all of my desktops. Small, efficient, fast, clean and get out of my way quick. Exactly the things I like about fluxbox, etc.

BTW: I used XFCE back before it bloated, and it was leaner and meaner then. I really liked it. If I wanted big and slow I would be happy with KDE or Gnome, and where the hardware and usage makes them appropriate either is OK. There are none I hate, but some I like better than others for those factors I value mentioned above.

If I did not need to get work done, if I only cared about it being "pretty", then Microsoft Windows would be good enough. And it is NOT.

I use Fluxbox with XFCE4 panel. It's the only panel I've found that I can customize the way I like, and works well in a vertical placement.

I vastly prefer OpenBox's keybindings to Fluxbox's. My impression was always that FluxBox is designed more for people who use the mouse heavily (and no other pointing device other than an actual mouse, at that), while OpenBox was more for people who use the keyboard heavily.