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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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Re: What desktop are you using?

#31 Post by Hallvor »

sunrat wrote: Then you have to go somewhere else to change it for other things like desktop application shortcuts. I'll bet the devs pondered at length to decide where to put some settings as there is a lot configurable in KDE. Most of them are somewhere in System Settings.
I was able to find it in System Settings using the search function in literally five seconds. More options make each option a little harder to find, but the ability to search in System Settings is very nice.
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Re: What desktop are you using?

#32 Post by Wheelerof4te »

sunrat wrote:Are you using a different KDE from me?
No, I'm using GNOME. I have tried KDE 5.12 recently in Manjaro, and KDE 5.8 some months back on Stretch. I was speaking from that experience.

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Re: What desktop are you using?

#33 Post by ticojohn »

I've tried several different desktops (GNOME, LXDE, KDE a,d XFCE). My personal preference is XFCE4. I also use lightdm. I have plenty of ram and system resources but just don't care for GNOME and KDE.
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Re: What desktop are you using?

#34 Post by Funkygoby »

Xfce4

Back in the days (~2007), I was using hopping between Gnome2 and Xfce4, I settled on the later and never looked back.
The slow developpement is a feature. It is like taking the back seat and watching others projects try new things.
There is no rush porting Xfce4 to GTK+3 or Qt5.

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#35 Post by HuangLao »

This was tough for me.

If using a DE then its Xfce, however, I have used Fluxbox (twm and blackbox before that) for many years (back to Unix days), recently I started playing with i3wm and I dare say I am booting into i3 more then Fluxbox.....hell hath frozen over?

PS: I voted for WM.

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#36 Post by arzgi »

XFCE here too.

I was using KDE for years. When KDE 4 came to Debian, load went to 100% when KDE was started. There was a lot whining also here, KDE users announced they will start using Gnome. Back then really there was only three alternatives, so I switched to XFCE then and never looked back.

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#37 Post by debiman »

"xfce is always a good idea" <= from the screenshot thread.
:D

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Re: What desktop are you using?

#38 Post by swathe »

i3wm. Have been on it about 5 years now.

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Re: What desktop are you using?

#39 Post by Caluser2000 »

XFCE4 Works well on this P4 and my P200MMX. Window Maker is my backup.

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#40 Post by woteb »

XFCE here too. On the MX way with the taskbar left and the Whisker menu down en Orage agenda top.
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#41 Post by Lysander »

GNOME. In spite of many people telling me I shouldn't for one reason or another, I've hung onto it. It looks good, it's simple and it's very different to Windows. I think it's great.

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Re: What desktop are you using?

#42 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

dwm

I hate desktop environments, everything they do to "help" irritates me.
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Re: What desktop are you using?

#43 Post by CwF »

Funkygoby wrote:Xfce4
...Xfce4, I settled on the later and never looked back.
The slow developpement is a feature..
My conclusion exactly.

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#44 Post by Bulkley »

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:I hate desktop environments, everything they do to "help" irritates me.
+1

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#45 Post by GarryRicketson »

Me too

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#46 Post by anticapitalista »

Bulkley wrote:
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:I hate desktop environments, everything they do to "help" irritates me.
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Re: What desktop are you using?

#47 Post by Nili »

I don't hate em, but i don't like DE's. Sure they looks good, some do some don't.

To me DE's are too complex for my needs, they're always in transition on (rolls/testing distro) Thanks to GTK2/3/4 QT4/5/6 etc..

The simplicity of WM's make it safer and quieter.

Openbox / FLuxbox / PekWm
herbstluftwm / dwm / i3

^ Those helps Linux to me...

+1 with Hoas aswell :)
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Re: What desktop are you using?

#48 Post by None1975 »

Nili wrote:The simplicity of WM's make it safer and quieter.

Openbox / FLuxbox / PekWm
herbstluftwm / dwm / i3

^ Those helps Linux to me...
Well said. Pure truth!
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#49 Post by Nili »

Thanks for your liking None1975 :)
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#50 Post by MALsPa »

I've got different DEs/WMs on different installations, so I didn't vote. Using Openbox this morning, but I also use Fluxbox, Xfce, and LXDE; KDE Plasma and/or GNOME Shell on my faster computers. I like variety (obviously).

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