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View Poll Results: Desktop Environment of the Year
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KDE
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208 |
33.12% |
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Gnome Shell
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120 |
19.11% |
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Unity
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29 |
4.62% |
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MATE
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21 |
3.34% |
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Xfce
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173 |
27.55% |
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rox
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3 |
0.48% |
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LXDE
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44 |
7.01% |
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Trinity-DE
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7 |
1.11% |
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Razor-qt
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7 |
1.11% |
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Cinnamon
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16 |
2.55% |
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12-21-2011, 03:29 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,610
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Desktop Environment of the Year
If you're looking for Fluxbox, Window Maker, Enlightenment or similar options - they are in the Window Manager of the Year poll.
--jeremy
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12-28-2011, 04:20 PM
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#2
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Member
Registered: Apr 2011
Location: Washington State
Distribution: Zorin5-(Ubuntu 11.04) // Backtrack 5-(Ubuntu 10.04) // Dreamlinux 3.5-(Debian)
Posts: 275
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XFCE ... I liked it when I used it, I am just to lazy to replace gnome  |
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12-28-2011, 04:29 PM
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#3
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2011
Location: UK
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
Posts: 7,680
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XFCE, has to be. With the changes to KDE and Gnome and Canonical's Unity there is one desktop everyone, including Linus, falls back on.
I actually have to point out here that with the exception of Unity I appreciate all the desktop environments -- heck, Unity can be appreciated too. We should not forget this is a major thing that Linux has going for it compared to Windows or Mac and even the Window manager you don't like is probably ten times more configurable than the paid for alternative.
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12-28-2011, 06:46 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2011
Location: Warrington, UK
Distribution: Arch local, Debian on VPS, several RPIs.
Posts: 300
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I'm going with xfce, too. The 4.8 update brought a bunch of stuff that it needed, and the whole gnome 3 debacle and argument means that those of us who liked gnome 2 get to stay in a familiar environment.
It would be nice to have more GUI config options for newer users, but the old hands at linux will have no problems.
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12-28-2011, 06:50 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Philippines
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 3,117
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KDE, it's what I use.
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12-28-2011, 07:39 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2010
Location: Russian Federation, Udmurtia
Distribution: CentOS, Aptosid, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Ubuntu
Posts: 48
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With retract of Gnome 2 MATE has a good advantage for father development
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12-29-2011, 04:56 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,836
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XFCE - it's the only DE I use if, for some unimaginable reason, I don't want to use i3wm.
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12-29-2011, 07:18 AM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware64 15; SlackwareARM-current (aarch64); Debian 12
Posts: 8,307
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KDE for me, although I do use others now and then. KDE 4 was rough when it first appeared, but it's OK now (I'm running 4.6.5).
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12-30-2011, 09:30 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2008
Posts: 1,047
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XFCE all the way! KDE4 nearly made me go back to Windows.. No further comments.. |
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12-30-2011, 10:15 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Greece
Distribution: Arch-Gnome-xfce
Posts: 23
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Gnome first and then Xfce.  |
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12-30-2011, 07:53 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2009
Posts: 3
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razor-qt
Razor-qt, simple,beautiful and easy to use.
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12-31-2011, 06:13 AM
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antiX
Registered: May 2005
Location: Greece
Distribution: antiX using herbstluftwm, fluxbox, IceWM and jwm.
Posts: 637
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Rox-desktop with icewm is a great combination.
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12-31-2011, 07:40 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: vijayawada, India
Distribution: openSUSE 11.2, Ubuntu 9.0.4
Posts: 1,155
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KDE rocks !!
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12-31-2011, 08:21 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: May 2009
Location: Gibraltar, Gibraltar
Distribution: Fedora 20 with Awesome WM
Posts: 6,805
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Hi,
Gnome and Xfce.
Kind regards,
Eric
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12-31-2011, 08:40 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2006
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 804
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I gotta say xfce, but I've recently been using KDE on Debian. Pretty nice.
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