2012 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice AwardsThis forum is for the 2012 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards.
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View Poll Results: Desktop Environment of the Year
XFCE. I tend to stick to Openbox with some select applications these days though. I think I prefer tint2 and Thunar instead of LXDE's lxpanel and PCmanFM. I feel like maybe I would like KDE after finding a non-fisher-price theme for it. MATE is a decent choice too.
Yay for Mate! So glad there's now a viable alternative to the "DE mess" that's been plaguing Linux since Gnome 3 and Unity came out! It's fun to use again! :-)
Fewt: Mate is a fork of Gnome 2 (by the Linux Mint folks), and has added-back the features that were removed from Gnome 2 a couple years ago. Give it a try! :-)
I use KDE with my Slack, but the DE that has impressed me the most and seems to have come the farthest this year has to be Cinnamon. I opted to install Mint on my netbook over things like Ubuntu and Slackware simply because Cinnamon was so simple and elegant, while still being fully featured. Big props to the Mint team!
Yay for Mate! So glad there's now a viable alternative to the "DE mess" that's been plaguing Linux since Gnome 3 and Unity came out! It's fun to use again! :-)
Fewt: Mate is a fork of Gnome 2 (by the Linux Mint folks), and has added-back the features that were removed from Gnome 2 a couple years ago. Give it a try! :-)
DaneM I know what MATE is. I was in the MATE IRC channel the day it was announced. I have no reason to use it, as I still work on supporting GNOME 2.
Xfce 4.10 is my choice, it has come a long way, and now that Thunar has tabbed browsing to go with plenty of custom actions it's even better. Fully customizable without the bloat
I voted Cinnamon because its release was a bit of a surprise to me and it has made great headway in the past year. Best of all time would be a toss-up between KDE3 and GNOME2 to me, and best to use right now would go to KDE4, but "Desktop Environment of the Year" is Cinnamon in my view.
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W00T! A DE that's sane, again!
I was in the MATE IRC channel the day it was announced. 
