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View Poll Results: Desktop Environment of the Year
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Budgie
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2 |
0.55% |
Cinnamon
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26 |
7.16% |
Deepin Desktop Environment
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0 |
0% |
Enlightenment
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6 |
1.65% |
Gnome Shell
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37 |
10.19% |
Lumina
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2 |
0.55% |
LXDE
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15 |
4.13% |
LXQt
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3 |
0.83% |
MATE
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31 |
8.54% |
Moksha
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2 |
0.55% |
MoonLightDE
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0 |
0% |
Pantheon
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0 |
0% |
Plasma Desktop (KDE)
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129 |
35.54% |
rox
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2 |
0.55% |
Trinity-DE
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4 |
1.10% |
Unity
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4 |
1.10% |
Xfce
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100 |
27.55% |
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12-23-2020, 10:22 AM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,630
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Desktop Environment of the Year
If you're looking for Fluxbox, Window Maker or similar options - they are in the Window Manager of the Year poll.
--jeremy
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12-24-2020, 12:54 PM
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#2
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antiX
Registered: May 2005
Location: Greece
Distribution: antiX using herbstluftwm, fluxbox, IceWM and jwm.
Posts: 644
Rep: 
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Rox (desktop) always gets my vote even though it is no longer developed.
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12-25-2020, 11:17 AM
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#3
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Member
Registered: Oct 2014
Posts: 965
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CDE.
Knowing that I cannot vote for it for good reasons: Plasma, I guess. I heard a lot of good things surrounding its recent developments and I admit that I'm surprised.
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12-28-2020, 06:58 AM
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#4
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Member
Registered: Sep 2017
Location: Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Slackware, X/ubuntu, MX Linux, OpenBSD, OpenWrt
Posts: 383
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KDE, because Plasma5 has made it to Slackware -current where I'm finding it very nice to use.
Another category where I find it difficult to pick just one. I use a few DEs/WMs, but two are tops for me.
Xfce is close to a tie with Plasma5, with it's release just over a year ago that didn't break usability for me. If that solid and steady progress continues with the recent release getting ready to land in a few distros, next year's poll choice for me will likely be Xfce.
TKS
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12-28-2020, 11:29 AM
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#5
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Member
Registered: Jul 2020
Location: Hellas
Distribution: Devuan+XFCE
Posts: 53
Rep: 
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KDE , but also XFCE
I think KDE has in the long run a more clear vision with fewer backtracks and sidetracks than gnome or unity . I like that also in XFCE.
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12-28-2020, 08:20 PM
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#6
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 20,014
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Of the DE's I much prefer KDE. XFCE is okay, but I find KDE's default set of applications superior to XFCE's. But that's just me.
Unity, of course, is now in the dustbin.
I loathe Gnome with the fire of a thousand suns. In these days of ginormous monitors, why the heck do they think application windows should be maximized by default? Plus they spell "simplify" as d-u-m-b-d-o-w-n. (As an aside, I put attribute this to Mark Shuttleworth's thoroughly discredited notion of "convergence," the notion that users are too stupid to adapt to using different interfaces on different types of devices.)
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12-31-2020, 11:06 PM
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#7
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Australia
Distribution: openSUSE
Posts: 1,470
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Voted for KDE. Kwin is the killer feature for me. It can be used in other Desktop Environments but it works best with Plasma. I also like the Application Dashboard menu a lot.
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01-01-2021, 08:22 PM
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#8
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Texas
Distribution: slackware 15-64
Posts: 39
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XFCE, but KDE is super nice - just too much for my laptop.
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01-04-2021, 12:59 PM
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#9
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Member
Registered: Feb 2014
Distribution: Bedrock
Posts: 437
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Cinnamon
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01-05-2021, 04:46 PM
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#10
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Member
Registered: Aug 2018
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
Distribution: PCLinuxOS
Posts: 169
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KDE, tho Trinity is a close second.
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01-08-2021, 12:55 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2020
Distribution: Gentoo GNU/Linux x86 (32 bit)
Posts: 31
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By far, MATE. XFCE is a close second, and KDE Plasma is third.
GNOME isn't even on my list.
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01-11-2021, 06:36 AM
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#12
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Member
Registered: Jul 2015
Distribution: Arch, Mint, Slackware, Tiny Core
Posts: 31
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Xfce. Simple, lightweight, but still has many great features.
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01-12-2021, 03:15 AM
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#13
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Member
Registered: May 2018
Distribution: CentOS 7, OpenSUSE 15
Posts: 420
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KDE when there is sufficient system resources.
icewm for older (AntiX)machines
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01-15-2021, 06:45 AM
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#14
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2010
Location: Baldwin Park, CA USA
Distribution: Slackware, MX Linux, Slint, Void, OpenBSD
Posts: 14
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Currently my desktop of choice is NsCDE. Since it's not there I'll have to go with Xfce I suppose.
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01-18-2021, 03:48 PM
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#15
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2010
Location: Hartford, CT
Distribution: Devuan Jessie
Posts: 28
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Why is no DE not an option?
Surely many prefer no desktop environment. That should be an option.
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