Ive seen some cool big projects made with AGS/Astal and EWW but their both gtk based, and gtk has been the defacto for years in making your own enviorment. Quickshell is intresting because its QT based instead, and since the ricing community likes new or different things were all trying out quickshell

Ignis has been very nice, been using it for a while now.

@ geometry dash spam: I use Quickshell though I don’t use any premade ones because non of them quite fit what I wanted which I’m not even sure what that is but I’m doing well so far even with the iffy documentation.

Quickshell has definitely become one of the fastest-growing frameworks for Linux desktop shells, especially with projects like Noctalia and DankMaterialShell making it much easier to customize a polished desktop without building everything from scratch. That said, it's not the only option AGS, Astal, Eww, and even KDE Plasma widgets still have active communities and unique strengths depending on your workflow.

If you're just getting into ricing, Quickshell feels like a great place to start because the ecosystem is growing so quickly. Funny enough, while comparing shell projects I ended up checking completely unrelated sites like preciooro.mx during a break, which reminded me how fast niche communities can grow once they get the right tools behind them.