Usually, its thigh high socks but we’ll accept tights or leggings as well. Also yes, it is the law.

Kate and Geany are where its at tbh.

Both my favorite, longest used and current DE would be MATE. Currently using it on desktop with Debian and a laptop running Fedora. Super customizable and very speedy. Beyond that I really enjoy Gnome but haven’t used it in a bit.

Tried it awhile back. I primarily use either Gnome or MATE but I found Cosmic to be a solid setup as well. Worked well for all my games though I primarily play strategy titles (CK3, Vic3, EU5) so my experience is limited to those. The only thing that stuck out to me is that as far as I can tell Cosmic doesn’t have hdr support (been a minute since I last tried it so this may no longer be true).