KDE vs GNOME
Amazingly my vi vs emacs thread didn't start a flame war. Maybe this will but which is your favorite DE/WM
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KDE Openbox Fluxbox for me
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Xfce here. If you had the option for Gnome 2.x, then I would have chose that also.
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Gnome 3 is the reason I use KDE... And Slackware doesn't have gnome but mostly gnome 3
Mate is a fork so you might want to choose that. |
I prefer the simple, light-weight elegance of Fluxbox.
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I prefer KDE
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KDE. I've never liked GNOME. I do feel interested in trying Xfce and LXDE some time in the near near future.
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Xfce…it just kind of stuck with me when I first tried it as the DE on my first Arch system. :p
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KDE, then fluxbox, then xfce. KDE4 was rough when it first came out, but it's OK now. Gnomes belong in the garden. :)
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IMO this poll should have a ranking system. For instance I use and love KDE, but have recently tried Unity and Gnome shell, and even though there are problems (and yes, KDE has problems too), there are good ideas. Hell I even took some of the concepts and implemented them in my KDE setup. In no way do I forget XFCE and the likes : whenever I get to repair an old PC, I stick one of these lightweight DEs on there.
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I am using Gnome 2 on Mageia currently and using Xfce4 with SalixOS. I find xfce pleasantly refreshing to use now days. I also use Openbox for myself but need a full DE for the family. |
I'm a Gnome 2 to Xfce migrant, although I do prefer Nautilus to Thunar. I need a proper desktop for control over keyboard drivers, but I have a soft spot for Icewm. It was the first GUI I ever used, and it still looks good in Vector Light and AntiX.
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K d e 3
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How come you didn't include i3 wm?! This poll is invalid, lol!
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Wow, I was the 15th voter and the first one to vote for other. wmii and Slackware on anything, from 7" to 22" display.
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I voted for Openbox. I've been meaning to try some of these more (for lack of a better word) obscure tiling window managers like i3 and wmii..
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fluxbox, icewm and Rox
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I think this poll is biased (as most are :rolleyes:) towards KDE, since a good number of LQ members use Slackware, and KDE is the default DE that's set up to start when one does startx (IIRC).
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Any Desktop Environment that resembles a Desktop
Where is the choice for Gnome 2?
KDE- Windows 95 clone with added features over Gnome 2 but buggy on any distro I have had it installed on as of Mandriva and Fedora. Windows are allowed to be moved underneath panels so you can't access the windows controls to move or close it again, very aggravating. Gnome 2 - A Desktop Environment that resembles a Desktop and was/is as good as a Desktop Environment for any price paid but was free. Was the utmost flagship of Linux/Opensource. Xfce - Gnome 2 but in the Stone Age. I think all of the Desktop Environments have great attributes to some degree but Gnome 2 was the only professional quality Desktop Environment that resembled a Desktop. Gnome 3 did not convince me to configure my computing approach away from a Virtual Desktop. I hope I do see a world some day where we all sit in front of what amounts to a palm-device attached to a microphone stand in a work cubical at the office. This is the direction the Gnome development team thinks we are heading and wants to be the front runner. Best of wishes to you on that. With the other lesser know Desktop Environments you have to rub two sticks together to achieve basic usage with them. I don't have the time to "go camping" all that much. I still don't see this as being opinionated so I felt obligated to post this for new comers.:twocents: |
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Then use the arrow keys to position the window where you want it. Press Enter when satisfied. I've never seen that problem though. Can't seem to make it happen no matter what I try. |
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In my experience Slackers tend to follow their own path so I'm not sure you can attribute any KDE bias to it.
I use a no nonsense dwm+dmenu setup on mine. |
I've been a slacker for 3 years and used kde for max 2 months and I guess I am not unique in that.
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Just voted kde. I think it's slightly unfare because i'm sure there's many people that liked gnome 2, or kde 3 but are unaware of mate and to a lesser extent because it's been around longer trinnity. I'm actually using twm at the moment and it's not all bad, but i need to get a file manager though. I haven't tried near the amount of the de/wm in the list as i'd like, but i can say that if kde wasn't around i defiantly move to either xfce or trinnity.
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Xfce here :) |
I Vote KDE. I use to like Gnome 2 Better (that's why I use Centos 6) and I am not at all fond of Gnome 3. I use KDE on PC-BSD and Pardus. LXDE is good but a bit Buggy. I use Awesome-wm on an Ubuntu Virtual Machine for research (since it's written in Lua and I am learning Lua).
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As a side note, previously saying oi'm a kde fan, i've recently completely ditched Amarok, i think the interface is to damn annoying and have permanently switched to Clmentine, which is a fork from the old Amarok 1.4. I am finding Clementine very pleasing, exactly what i want. Once i save up some dollar, i'm going to send some to the developers. |
Technically there forks of them. And are still actively developed and used in Linux Distros. I think linux mint will use MATE and you can get Kubantu standard with Trinity.
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LXDE is my 1st choice. Lightweight but still functional and configurable. Gnome 2 still runs a close second... for as long as it's still supported, that is...
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I used to be a "Gnome Man" but I've find that LXDE with SLiM works the best for me :)
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Kightron According to distro watch mint is the most popular. It would seem that dev would target more popular distros until their more popular.
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oh and Mate's Website (it's not in english) http://matsusoft.com.ar/projects/mate/
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Thanks for the link. |
KDE does seem to be the favorite so far. It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that KDE is favored by more LQ users than any other DE or WM.
What is surprising to me though is the poor showing by GNOME relative to all other choices. I mean, it doesn't even say GNOME 3, it just says GNOME. Even if KDE weren't an option in the poll, GNOME is still getting trounced by the competition.
What can be made of this? Is it that LQ users tend to favor lightweight desktops or simple window managers over full featured DEs (again, KDE aside)? Is it that people are leaving GNOME? I really don't know. Nothing too serious I guess: it is only an open poll of a single community. |
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KDE 4.X, XFCE, and Trinity here.
I've only just started using trinty, and I'm not sure if it will kick Xfce from its current 'installed on all my not so fast machines' position. |
KDE for the win
I love KDE. And, well, I swear that I use KDE4 in my job everyday, not KDE3! :D
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I abandoned Kde some years ago for Gnome. I'm so used to gnome there is no going back. Everything I need works and I know the software.
I still dabble with other window managers for fun but they are always lacking something I need or take too long to configure the way I want them. I have hope for lxde. |
KDE 4 (running 4.6.5 on Debian Sid), second choice Xfce 4.
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