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View Poll Results: Desktop Environment of the Year
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.
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.
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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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.
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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