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View Poll Results: Desktop Environment of the Year
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KDE
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329 |
40.37% |
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Gnome
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342 |
41.96% |
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Xfce
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92 |
11.29% |
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GNUstep
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3 |
0.37% |
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11 |
1.35% |
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LXDE
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38 |
4.66% |
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01-20-2010, 08:41 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: Greece
Distribution: antiX using fluxbox, icewm, i3 and wmii
Posts: 275
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark7
Rox.
And I bet that's the last time you see that answer.
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No. I vote for Rox as well. |
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01-20-2010, 09:46 AM
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#32
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Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Leicester
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 with ROX DE
Posts: 191
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Okay, so my prediction was somewhat inaccurate  |
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01-20-2010, 10:50 AM
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#33
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Irmo, SC
Distribution: Fedora Core 6 and RHEL 5.1
Posts: 17
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KDE all the way
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01-20-2010, 12:11 PM
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#34
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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: east coast
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 131
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I like the simplicity of xfce, but I'm always going to feel more at home with gnome. I used to be a huge KDE fan, but opensuse converted me with their nice looking slab thing.
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01-20-2010, 07:46 PM
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#35
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Guru
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 6,042
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I picked Xfce because it has been making improvements last year and year before that with out sacrificing usability. It is also stayed simple while KDE has gotten more complicated. People may go with eye candy, but simplicity rules. GNOME is just blah. Xfce suits a better Desktop/Window manager for Linux than others because KDE resembles Windows and Gnome resembles Mac OS. LXDE resembles Windows too much.
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01-21-2010, 04:49 AM
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#36
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Tacoma, WA
Distribution: Slackware 14
Posts: 214
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I keep ending up in gnome or xfce. Just not all that happy with KDE. Except kmail is still is my primary mail program.
-JJ
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01-21-2010, 05:42 AM
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#37
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Registered: Jun 2008
Location: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.04, UNE 10.10, CrunchBang Statler, Bodhi
Posts: 52
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I voted XFCE as the best balance between functionality and weight. Well implemented in Xubuntu 9.10 and Mint 7.
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01-21-2010, 07:43 AM
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#38
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2009
Location: Vapi, India
Distribution: RHEL 5, openSUSE 11.1, Ubuntu 8.10 / 9.04, Fedora 10
Posts: 19
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Gnome
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01-21-2010, 08:11 AM
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#39
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Distribution: Slackware64-current & "True Multilib."
Posts: 1,754
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Xfce
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01-21-2010, 02:54 PM
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#40
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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Pittsburgh
Distribution: openSUSE 11.4 on GoBooks
Posts: 76
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no option for fvwm
my desktop environment--fvwm--not even listed, but suppose it is closest to xfce.
Last edited by wiliamvw; 01-21-2010 at 03:00 PM.
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01-21-2010, 03:28 PM
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#41
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2009
Location: Shillong, India
Distribution: Linux Mint 8, Arch +XFCE , windows 7
Posts: 15
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Gnome FTW!
Xfce is not too far behind though.
KDE is bloated and looks like a horrible Windows wannabe.
Last edited by rocker_geek; 01-21-2010 at 04:53 PM.
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01-21-2010, 03:39 PM
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#42
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Registered: Jan 2010
Location: British Columbia
Distribution: Linux Mint 14, Debian 6
Posts: 121
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Gnome
Gnome. I also don't mind XFCE.
I hate KDE & CDE.
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01-21-2010, 04:32 PM
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#43
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Glendale, AZ
Distribution: Distro-homeless. Lost.
Posts: 1,772
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cityscape
Gnome. I also don't mind XFCE.
I hate KDE & CDE.
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Never heard of CDE. I'll have to look it up. |
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01-21-2010, 05:03 PM
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#44
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2009
Location: Shillong, India
Distribution: Linux Mint 8, Arch +XFCE , windows 7
Posts: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by newbiesforever
Never heard of CDE. I'll have to look it up.
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I think he's referring to Solaris Common Desktop Environment |
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01-21-2010, 09:00 PM
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#45
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Member
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: Linux Mint 8, Ubuntu Studio 9.10, DSL 4.1
Posts: 30
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GNOME!
It's the perfect balance between being lightweight (enough) & fast & pretty. KDE is just too darn bloated, even if I customize it.
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