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2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards This forum is for the 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards.
You can now vote for your favorite products of 2005. This is your chance to be heard! Voting ends March 6th.

View Poll Results: Desktop Environment of the Year
KDE 1253 64.86%
Gnome 496 25.67%
XFCE 170 8.80%
GNUstep 11 0.57%
Ximian 2 0.10%
Voters: 1932. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-28-2006, 02:53 PM   #1
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Desktop Environment of the Year


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If you're looking for Fluxbox, Window Maker, Enlightenment or similar options - they are in the Window Manager of the Year poll.

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Old 01-29-2006, 08:18 PM   #2
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KDE, it continues to make strides in becoming the best free desktop on the market... Usability, looks, and especially features. Plus KDE (KDE4 specifically) has a bright future ahead of it.
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Old 01-30-2006, 12:41 AM   #3
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Gnome, cause it is not so fancy as KDE (that's advantage) and also well does its job.
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Old 01-30-2006, 03:36 AM   #4
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Xfce, it's much faster than Gnome or KDE, and still very userfrendly
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Old 01-30-2006, 06:42 AM   #5
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Personally I really like KDE, it was the first GUI I used and came to enjoy the eye candy and the useful tools and applications. Gnome too is quite nice and has some useful tools and applications as well, but I think I'm just a KDE person, just like people are drawn to different distros. Xfce is quite a nice little GUI to if you want something fast or have an old machine with not much memory.
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Old 01-30-2006, 07:46 AM   #6
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Gnome

Gnome sits well for me between the complexity of KDE and the (Desktop Environment) minimalist XFCE4, though I try them all a couple of times a year to keep abreast of developments.

For me, my Gnome desktop handles shares well, stays out of my way, and lets me do the work that I want to do. With the proper plugins, Nautilus is even decent these days.
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Old 01-30-2006, 11:37 AM   #7
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Objectively I would say Gnome deserves the title . Because of its the progress it has MADE

Personal gut-feeling response would be KDE
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Old 01-30-2006, 11:42 AM   #8
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i like gnome but i like KDE better. i also use xfce. but mostly i use KDE because its what im used to using all the time so i know it well.
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Old 01-30-2006, 12:35 PM   #9
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Ive been stuck with KDE all the time from the beginning...tried gnome a few times..but just could not stick to it
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Old 01-30-2006, 12:37 PM   #10
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By far the best improved and for it's features has to be KDE though I don't use it. (fluxbox here)
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Old 01-30-2006, 01:07 PM   #11
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I mainly use Fluxbox, but I am giving XFce a good try and have to say I'm impressed. Will be interesting to see the changes to XFce 4.4.
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Old 01-30-2006, 01:25 PM   #12
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I really like XFCE and GNOME, but KDE takes the title for me. It keeps on improving at a very fast rate and has a lot of features that are lacking in other DEs.
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Old 01-30-2006, 01:55 PM   #13
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KDE is the most solid, the most complete, and the one who happens to have a vast number of good applications written for it. So, I voted KDE.
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Old 01-30-2006, 01:57 PM   #14
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I use Gnome at the moment, but both KDE and Xfce have also made significant improvements in recent years.
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Old 01-30-2006, 03:04 PM   #15
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I love Gnome unfortunately KDE is tacking the best steps in the right direction so my vote goes to kde, which I'm using in my FreeBSD desktop.
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