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View Poll Results: Desktop Environment of the Year
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KDE
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207 |
33.01% |
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Gnome Shell
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120 |
19.14% |
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Unity
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29 |
4.63% |
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MATE
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21 |
3.35% |
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Xfce
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173 |
27.59% |
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3 |
0.48% |
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LXDE
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44 |
7.02% |
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Trinity-DE
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7 |
1.12% |
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Razor-qt
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7 |
1.12% |
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Cinnamon
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16 |
2.55% |
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01-27-2012, 07:52 PM
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#61
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Member
Registered: May 2005
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 58
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I can't vote in this poll because there is no option for none. I simply use Openbox and build a custom desktop environment around that.
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02-01-2012, 06:50 AM
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#62
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2009
Location: Ohio
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 20
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DE
Cinnamon, otherwise LXDE
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02-01-2012, 08:34 AM
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#63
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Registered: Jul 2008
Location: Texas
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx"
Posts: 61
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Quote:
Originally Posted by philipgr
This is a difficult one. I love Gnome 2. I intensely dislike the Unity and Gnome 3 desktops. Between Unity and Gnome 3 I think Gnome 3 is slightly better. KDE is not too bad, prefer Gnome 2 though. I have chosen Gnome Shell. If Gnome 2 had been in the list I would have it.
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I agree. Someone suggested MATE represents Gnome 2. Jeremy, could you weigh in on this? I don't want to vote for Gnome 3 by mistake. I'd almost rather use Windoze than Gnome 3 or Unity. |
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02-01-2012, 10:35 AM
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#64
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,514
Original Poster
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Originally Posted by Toadbrooks
I agree. Someone suggested MATE represents Gnome 2. Jeremy, could you weigh in on this? I don't want to vote for Gnome 3 by mistake. I'd almost rather use Windoze than Gnome 3 or Unity.
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MATE represents MATE, which is a fork of Gnome 2.
--jeremy |
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02-01-2012, 11:32 AM
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#65
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Registered: May 2010
Location: Planet Earth
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 766
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Where is BlackBox ?!? Well Gnome then !!
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02-01-2012, 09:28 PM
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#66
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2008
Posts: 9
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KDE
Using KDE 4.8 on my desktop - it's great. And using Enlightenment (E17) on an old laptop.
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02-01-2012, 11:25 PM
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#67
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Registered: Jul 2008
Location: Texas
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx"
Posts: 61
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jeremy
MATE represents MATE, which is a fork of Gnome 2.
--jeremy
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OK, so if I want to vote for Gnome 2, which do I choose? |
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02-01-2012, 11:30 PM
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#68
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Registered: Feb 2010
Location: London, UK
Distribution: Slackware -current; Scientific Linux; CentOS; Debian
Posts: 363
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Most difficult poll here. All the main contenders have significant drawbacks in my mind. KDE4 is finally usable, and has loads of nice features, but there's still something vaguely annoying about using it. Unity is crapola, Gnome 3 has potential I think but it's still in it's infancy. Xfce is nice enough but there's been no noticable improvement recently compared to KDE, so I suppose my vote has to be KDE.
I hope some of the smaller/newer DE's will pick up the slack this year though.
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02-02-2012, 03:36 PM
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#69
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Registered: Aug 2006
Location: London
Distribution: Debian, Kubuntu
Posts: 572
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Has to be KDE for its amazing configurability but with no Nepomuk/Strigi, Akonadi. And even after 3 years Plasma still associates with nausea for me.
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02-02-2012, 04:19 PM
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#70
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 3
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Lxde +1
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02-02-2012, 07:56 PM
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#71
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2012
Posts: 5
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I liked GNOME 3 fallback mode, but I was never a fan of GNOME shell... Soooo, I'll vote MATE since it is the most similar.
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02-03-2012, 03:53 AM
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#72
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2012
Posts: 2
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GNome for me
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02-03-2012, 06:48 AM
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#73
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2010
Location: Wales UK
Distribution: Mint 11
Posts: 22
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MATE=Gnome 2 thank goodness.
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02-05-2012, 11:41 PM
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#74
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada.
Distribution: Debian wheezy ppc64, Lubuntu, Bodhi
Posts: 7
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LXDE. I need fast and lean. I like Gnome too, But LXDE gets my vote.
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02-06-2012, 12:16 PM
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#75
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Member
Registered: Oct 2010
Location: Serbia (Europe)
Distribution: Slackware 13.1
Posts: 74
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Kde 
But I like others too. |
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