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What desktop are you using?

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What desktop are you using?

GNOME
15
17%
KDE
12
14%
XFCE
24
28%
MATE
10
11%
Cinnamon
4
5%
LXDE
2
2%
LXQT
1
1%
Simple X window manager (IceWM, Openbox, Fluxbox, etc)
19
22%
 
Total votes: 87

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What desktop are you using?

#1 Post by dust hill resident »

This kind of poll has undoubtedly been done before, but I think it'd be a good time to do it again to get more up to date information.
What desktop do you use? If you use several, choose the one you use the most.

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#2 Post by Nili »

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#3 Post by Leaphorn »

What about Pantheon or Budgie? :D
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#4 Post by kopper »

i3wm on desktop and laptops. Mostly because I don't like the bloat on DEs. Not that my devices couldn't handle them, but they're just so... fat. :D

I've been thinking of trying herbsluft or openbox, but I haven't got around to do it yet.
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#5 Post by None1975 »

Ratpoison and Herbstluftwm.
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#6 Post by Wheelerof4te »

I use GNOME. No reason not to, since it's a complete DE, has everything I need OOTB and my laptop is more than capable of running it.

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#7 Post by anticapitalista »

Another herbstluftwm user.
I hate using a desktop environment, I much prefer window managers.
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#8 Post by pawRoot »

i3 gaps :D

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#9 Post by sjukfan »

kopper wrote:i3wm on desktop and laptops. Mostly because I don't like the bloat on DEs. Not that my devices couldn't handle them, but they're just so... fat. :D
I use Openbox by the same reason, plus it doesn't change behaviour with every update. I might be running testing, but i prefer my desktop to be stable.
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#10 Post by steve_v »

KDE, since version 1.0. Nothing else has enough knobs.
I tried using a couple of other DEs recently, (MATE, Cinnamon) and everywhere I look there's behaviour I want to change and no configuration options.
Why can't I edit the toolbars in every application? Why are normal settings hidden in some obscure gconf key? Reminds me why I dumped everything gnome after 1.6. Simpler != better.
I tried GNOME3 too, for as long as I could put up with it. The UI is just horrific. Client-side window decorations? Hamburger menus? Tiles? WTF? And no obvious way to turn this garbage off. :evil:
KDE has plenty of features I don't want too, but at least reverting to a traditional desktop layout is simple.

That and the bundled applications. Kate, in particular, is awesome. A good 90% of my favourite applications are QT.
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#11 Post by dcihon »

MATE with Compiz via Stevepusser gives me all the bells and whistles I need.

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#12 Post by debiman »

openbox, conky, tint2.

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#13 Post by sunrat »

KDE here too. Plasma 5.10 is the most well-behaved DE I've ever used and a marked improvement on 5.8 which is currently in Stretch. Kate and Konsole are excellent. Dolphin is the best file manager ever. I find myself using its F4 drop-down console a lot lately. And of course KDE Connect which integrates some neat phone features such as file transfer and media player control, SMS on desktop, and using phone as a desktop pointing device.
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#14 Post by steve_v »

sunrat wrote:Plasma 5.10 is the most well-behaved DE I've ever used and a marked improvement on 5.8 which is currently in Stretch.
Plasma 5.11.5 is even better :P
I was actually a bit miffed when dolphin replaced konqueror as the default file manager, but it's come a long way since then.
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#15 Post by Roken »

None, running headless on a VPS (and Raspbian - which is Debian based on a headless Pi).

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#16 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

PekWM + lxpanel :)
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#17 Post by Nili »

Back on spectrwm. After on a relatively time with herbstluftwm returning back on spectrwm. I have to affirm the latter is way faster WM and floats works good. I'm getting straight away at spectrwm.conf.
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#18 Post by kedaha »

I use mate. I always used Gnome2 and when that got done away with I tried Gnome3 for some time with the classic look but decided that mate was for me. I don't chop and change.
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#19 Post by Argus »

i3 or xfce4, depending on my mood.

Sometimes I use gnome, too, but I have a love-hate relationship with it and detest the attitude of the developers, which tends to be very dismissive of the needs of anyone who doesn't fit their target demographic (very casual / unsophisticated users) and relies on difficult to maintain extensions that break with every release to be palatable or modify essential settings. Also, I'm afraid Gnome will prematurely drop support for X11 before Wayland is actually fully functional and useable in more than just casual/basic use cases. As things are going now, it will be a very long time before I can do everything on Wayland that I can do on X, and gnome's reputation is not so good when it comes to retaining functionality that users rely on. :?

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#20 Post by debiman »

^ ah, that's eloquent. well spoken.

anyhow, i'm glad to see the "simple X windowmanager" voters are in the lead!
XFCE as a clear second also isn't too shabby, esp. considering it's not debian's default desktop.

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