What is your favorite GNU/Linux desktop environment?

Worztron · 15-12-2011 2:10pm #1

Hi.

As of right now, what is your #1 favorite GNU/Linux desktop environment?

If your one is not on the poll, please select 'Other' and leave a comment.

Thanks.

Jonathan · 15-12-2011 2:33pm

GNOME3/GNOME Shell

Why Gnome2 and MATE?

Worztron · 15-12-2011 2:35pm

GNOME3/GNOME Shell

Jonathan wrote: »

Why Gnome2 and MATE?

Do you mean why I have both on the list? MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.

Khannie · 15-12-2011 3:05pm

GNOME3/GNOME Shell

I haven't used gnome 3 yet, but currently very much like gnome 2.

Johnboy1951 · 15-12-2011 3:43pm

LXDE

Definitely KDE4 ...... with LXDE as an alternate if the hardware is not quite up to KDE4.

Khannie · 15-12-2011 7:46pm

GNOME3/GNOME Shell

Is it really that bad?

Jonathan · 15-12-2011 8:58pm

GNOME3/GNOME Shell

Worztron wrote: »

Do you mean why I have both on the list? MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.

Yes, but they are the same thing. Some Arch hipster has simply run s/GNOME/MATE on the GNOME 2.32 codebase.

Currently using GNOME 3 fallback. I'd move to XFCE but since the demise of XfApplet-plugin, it is hard to find any decent applets.

Orion · 15-12-2011 11:12pm

This has been done before. And the answer is the same - it depends on the purpose. My media PC currently has Gnome but used to have Xfce. An old laptop for the kids for internet use has XFCE. Flux on another laptop. I set up internet PCs in the canteen in work and they're KDE. One size does not fit all.

Galen · 16-12-2011 6:51am

IceWM

On it's own Gnome3 is ****e but when you add extensions and synapse it's brilliant.

h57xiucj2z946q · 16-12-2011 10:02am

CDE :-P
http://www.google.ie/search?q=cde&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=KRfrTu2oOMeDhQe2moSyCA&biw=1209&bih=606&sei=KxfrTvjeN4yKhQePq5jMCA

syklops · 16-12-2011 10:03am

LXDE

I installed Red Hat 7.3 with KDE around 8 years ago and its been KDE ever since.

Initially I hated KDE4, as I thought KDE3.5 was almost hitting perfection, and for a while I dumped it and tried other environments, but I went back to it, started submitting bugs, and now I am very happy with it.

Galen · 16-12-2011 12:22pm

IceWM

This year I had to pass on KDE (kubuntu) because of lock ups with my ATI gpu. I'm looking forward to what comes in 12.04, lightdm for instance.

Khannie · 16-12-2011 2:52pm

GNOME3/GNOME Shell

Leslie Scary Dollar wrote: »

CDE :-P
http://www.google.ie/search?q=cde&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=KRfrTu2oOMeDhQe2moSyCA&biw=1209&bih=606&sei=KxfrTvjeN4yKhQePq5jMCA

Site banned. :pac:

evercloserunion · 26-12-2011 7:27am

AwesomeWM.

Tom Dunne · 26-12-2011 2:26pm

Motif.

(yes, I know, it's technically a window manager, but I find it hard to let go)

Stuxnet · 26-12-2011 10:32pm

getting used to gnome 3 now, and with shell extensions, its pretty usable.

Mint's version of gnome 3 is as good as it gets imo, and they have a new fork of gnome 3 called cinnamon, and its pretty cool also !

gotta love linux for choice

JuneBug29 · 01-01-2012 7:47pm

Other

I started out with KDE, then moved to Gnome 2. I tried other enviroments but never found something that i was as happy with as Gnome 2 so i stuck with it. With the move to Gnome 3, i wanted something more back to basics. I did try the fallback mode. It's very similar but i just wanted to try something else. I gave XFCE a go and it has come a long way since i last used it. Right now it's all i want. Nice and simple yet powerful. It's currently my favourite and it has no plans of going the way of Gnome 3/Unity so i can keep my desktop the way i'm used to.

humbert · 05-01-2012 2:57am

GNOME2

Orion wrote: »

This has been done before. And the answer is the same - it depends on the purpose. My media PC currently has Gnome but used to have Xfce. An old laptop for the kids for internet use has XFCE. Flux on another laptop. I set up internet PCs in the canteen in work and they're KDE. One size does not fit all.

Same as this. Using a small linux partition with gentoo and fluxbox because it's very customisable but if it was my primary desktop environment I wouldn't be using fluxbox.

schrodinger · 05-01-2012 11:54am

FVWM

Although I use FreeBSD UNIX and not a Linux.

Porninferno · 06-01-2012 7:00pm

Other

XFCE + Slim on Arch for me.

We have a box running Ubuntu 11.04 (Gnome 2.32.1) and a laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but my preference is for XFCE on Arch.

John

Worztron · 06-01-2012 7:04pm

GNOME3/GNOME Shell

Porninferno wrote: »

XFCE + Slim on Arch for me.

We have a box running Ubuntu 11.04 (Gnome 2.32.1) and a laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but my preference is for XFCE on Arch.

John

Xfce is certainly punching above its weight. It is a very underrated DE.

Goodshape · 06-01-2012 7:41pm

IceWM

Stuxnet wrote: »

Mint's version of gnome 3 is as good as it gets imo

Yeah, that's what I use. I like it a lot.

I tried Unity on Ubuntu 11.10 and really didn't like that at all. Vanilla Gnome 3 wasn't much better either (possibly worse) and I found XFCE a bit lacking. After switching to Mint I was instantly happy with their implementation of Gnome 3. For the most part it just works and doesn't get in the way -- which has restored my faith somewhat after the vanilla Gnome 3 / Unity mess.

U_Fig · 07-01-2012 6:01am

my fave distro is backtrack...the old ones were based on slax the new ones based on debian.. my fave is still prob backtrack 3... i've still got a tweaked one on a small flash on my keys...it's the fastest one i've seen load on my new SSD aswell

human 19 · 07-01-2012 8:57pm

LXDE

I love KDE because I can customise the bejasus out of it.

Worztron · 07-01-2012 9:45pm

GNOME3/GNOME Shell

human 19 wrote: »

I love KDE because I can customise the bejasus out of it.

KDE has just taken the lead with 8 votes.

U_Fig · 10-01-2012 5:56pm

U_Fig wrote: »

my fave distro is backtrack...the old ones were based on slax the new ones based on debian.. my fave is still prob backtrack 3... i've still got a tweaked one on a small flash on my keys...it's the fastest one i've seen load on my new SSD aswell

lol i just realised what i posted was irrelavant above lol drunken replays to threads... i like the gnome DE's but i do agree kde good also usually just use gnome as i mostly use ubuntu but i use kde in my backtrack mentioned above

bnt · 10-01-2012 8:55pm

I'm not trying to be a hipster, honest ... but I've recently grown to like GNUstep a lot. I've tried just about every WM possibility you can bung on top of Debian & related systems, and get on just fine with Unity, but I find GNUstep has all the essential features while being extremely lightweight. No rounded corners or transparency, but you can do "modern" things like launch an application from the menu then drag the icon to the "dock" on the right so it's there for quick access next time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu9i0msGFUY

The File Manager in that video is ugly, PCManFM is a nicer replacement.

boomslang · 14-01-2012 2:19pm

IceWM

Currently finding gnome-shell over ubuntu 11.10 is working really well on my machine. With a few tweaks here and there it now looks really nice and feels very stable. I tried similar in mint 12 but it feels better as is. Ironically I have used mint for quite a while but it tended to collapse if I tweaked the wrong thing. But their cinnamon desktop approach is very nice too and is installable on a few different distros too

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