Help me find a desktop!!
 

Well, I got Slackware 10.0 up and running. I wanted to thank all of you for your wonderful advice. I definately like the simplicity of Slackware. I see why everyone likes it so much. I have learned more about linux these past few days pouring over the documentation than I ever would have using other distros. Now that I have found a cool distro, it is time for me to find an apporpriate desktop. Now on to my question.....

What is the best desktop?

I realize that is very subjective question. As a result, I will describe what I consider a ideal desktop to be. I personally like simple desktops that are highly customizable. I don't like desktops that include a lot of packaged software. I generally like to add individual components on my own. KDE and GNOME are fine but they include things that I don't need or want. My philosophy is to load the crucial components ONLY and customize with what I want from there. As long as I can run OpenOffice.org, Wine, XMMS, Mplayer, and Firefox. I am fine. I was thinking of trying Enlightenment or Fluxbox. I would appreciate your thoughts or comments. Thanks in advance.

XFce and Fluxbox are both my favorites but I install gnome and kde anyway because some apps out there require them to be ran...You can still call the programs even if they require kde and gnome, they just load the necessary dependencies

what a flamebait.

Re: Help me find a desktop!!
 

A friend recently brought around his gentoo laptop to show off enlightenment - I have to admit I was impressed by how many features it had - it's a fairly clean window manager which runs fairly fast. Personally I use fluxbox since it is nice and minimalistic - though I'm considering compiling enlightenment and seeing how it runs on my machine :)buh?

fluxbox!!!!!!!!!!!!

XFce...not much added in, and still has eye candy via GTK. :D Fluxbox is nice, but it's rather ugly and too minimal. I use it for my Pentium 1 machine, on which is does wonders for the lack of power, but otherwise, I'd say XFce.

Rox with Icewm - small, fast, efficient and simple.

Definetely fluxbox!!!!

Yeah, fluxbox the 350k window manager ;)

why don't you try them all and see for yourself

Yeah.

just xwmconfig at the prompt...

ROX-Filer with WindowMaker is my choice. ROX provides many great features and wmaker is the easiest to configure of all the lite window managers.
KDE and GNOME are the only 'desktops' available. Everything else is just a windowmanager and you must put your own 'desktop' together.

twm

xfce :)

You should try all of them, personally i was using xfce (tried kde, gnome, blackbox, fluxbox and icewm before it) until i spent two days configuring fvwm and now i prefer it. You just have to pick up each wm and configure it, if it doesn't suits you, try another one.