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[Poll] What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

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What is your favorite DE?

Poll ended at 2017-07-17 14:28

Budgie
1
2%
Cinnamon
4
7%
GNOME
5
9%
KDE
11
20%
LXDE
1
2%
LXQt
0
No votes
MATE
6
11%
Openbox
4
7%
Xfce
17
31%
Other - please comment
5
9%
 
Total votes: 54

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Re: What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#21 Post by mor »

arochester wrote:Does Budgie not need a PPA to install in Jessie? (Don't break Debian)
It entered Unstable yesterday.

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#22 Post by Alley Cat »

Right now, my two faves are Budgie and Pantheon. Budgie ranks higher for me though as Solus is a promising new distro and Elementary is just another Ubuntu spin.

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Re: What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#23 Post by deborah-and-ian »

dasein wrote:KDE's Dolphin also has "custom actions," except they're called "service ...
Ad noted, I need a desktop that stays out of my way. The only ones that manage that without much tweaking are LXDE and Xfce, and Pcmanfm is just too rudimentary for me.
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Re: [Poll] What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#24 Post by Ardouos »

wizard10000 wrote: I ran KDE for years, switching to Crunchbang four years ago where I learned to love *box. Took fluxbox and openbox about as far as I wanted to and decided to revisit KDE; installed Plasma5 under Sid and have been tweaking things ever since.
Nice, loving the KDE/ conky setup. I will wait until KDE 5 hits stable before I use it though.

I am still slowly tweaking my system here and there trying to get the best configuration for me. I access most of my software with keybindings rather than right click, but I probably will create a quick setup for a comfortable right click menu as I am still using the default one.
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#25 Post by Rildebai »

dasein wrote:Purely pedantic point: Openbox is a WM, not a DE
Hi dasein.

Point taken. :wink:
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Re: What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#26 Post by Rildebai »

deborah-and-ian wrote:Xfce because it stays out of my way and Thunar has custom actions.
Hi deborah-and-ian.

Like your username. :)

I love Xfce but much prefer the Caja file manager in MATE.
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Re: [Poll] What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#27 Post by Gyokuro »

Longtime XFCE user but switched to Cinnamon and I like it (nothing wrong with XFCE I got bored and installed Cinnamon).

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Re: [Poll] What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#28 Post by Rildebai »

dasein wrote:
pcdoctor01 wrote:I loved KDE during the 3.x days and eventually got tired of the 4.x bugs.
KDE 3.x is still around, via TDE (Trinity). Exegnulinux has a live media version. (I've tried it; it rocks.)
Hi dasein.

Yes, Trinity is damn good alright. Incredibly light and I love the old school feel.
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#29 Post by Rildebai »

Gyokuro wrote:Longtime XFCE user but switched to Cinnamon and I like it (nothing wrong with XFCE I got bored and installed Cinnamon).
Hi Gyokuro.

I've never warmed to Cinnamon -- it reminds me too much of KDE.
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#30 Post by Rildebai »

KBD47 wrote:Xfce my favorite. MATE a close second...
Hi KBD47.

For me, it's the other way around. :P
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#31 Post by Gyokuro »

Rildebai wrote:
Gyokuro wrote:Longtime XFCE user but switched to Cinnamon and I like it (nothing wrong with XFCE I got bored and installed Cinnamon).
Hi Gyokuro.

I've never warmed to Cinnamon -- it reminds me too much of KDE.
Hello and good day Rildebai,

never really liked KDE - KDE 3.5 was ok, Gnome 2.2 was fine but I cannot even remember when I started with XFCE so after many years/Debian releases I got bored and therefore installed Cinnamon and it's so far ok and for the moment I have shameless copied the look of Mint :D.

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Re: [Poll] What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#32 Post by tomazzi »

XFCE++ ;)

I've commented on this in a previous DE poll thread, so I won't repeat myself here...

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Re: [Poll] What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#33 Post by KBD47 »

Rildebai wrote: Hi KBD47.

For me, it's the other way around. :P
MATE is impressive on both Ubuntu MATE and Mint MATE. I'm a bit of a minimalist so I like things uncluttered and that is why I like both Debian and XFCE :)

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Re: [Poll] What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#34 Post by pendrachken »

I was a die hard KDE fan, starting from 2.something and even through the first pretty painful parts of 4.x... then they hammered everything flat and fugly with 5.x, and I discovered Cinnamon, which reminds me of the older KDE releases; even if it isn't quite as configurable.

The other two desktops I like, and can use easily, are XFCE4 and Pantheon.

I do hate Thunar though, there are not many file managers WORSE than it ( Finder on Mac is one, god damn it is awful ).
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Re: [Poll] What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#35 Post by sunrat »

JLloyd13 wrote:
sunrat wrote: I'm patiently but eagerly awaiting a good Plasma 5. I've heard OpenSuse does it ok, but I started Linux with rpm distros and don't want to go back. Also heard Kubuntu's Plasma 5 is meh. siduction was very usable until I broke it.
Neon?
Downloaded to try. It's Ubuntu based which is a negative factor IMO.
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Re: [Poll] What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#36 Post by kuroneko »

I don't have a favorite Desktop Environment but I do have a favorite windows manager and it's i3.

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Re: [Poll] What is your favorite Desktop Environment?

#37 Post by No_windows »

pendrachken wrote: I do hate Thunar though, there are not many file managers WORSE than it
Really? What's wrong with it?

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#38 Post by edbarx »

My favourite desktop environment is one that does not interfere with what I do with my programs, allows a bottom up installation, allows a good deal of customisation, does not behave like a hog when it comes to resource use, does not hide ethically questionable software lock-ins, and finally but not least, does not make assumptions about what I would do.

Does it even exist? No.
XFCE 4.10 is an acceptable approximation of the above.
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#39 Post by Rildebai »

pendrachken wrote: ...

The other two desktops I like, and can use easily, are XFCE4 and Pantheon.

I do hate Thunar though, there are not many file managers WORSE than it ( Finder on Mac is one, god damn it is awful ).
Hi pendrachken.

I like what Peppermint 7 has done. They have a mix of Xfce panel + LXDE as the DE + Nemo file manager. I'd love a Debian Stable spin of this.
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#40 Post by pendrachken »

No_windows wrote:
pendrachken wrote: I do hate Thunar though, there are not many file managers WORSE than it
Really? What's wrong with it?

I don't know if anything has been changed recently, but: It was too basic, it was slower than dirt when enumerating large directories, it didn't have very good VFS support ( no SSH / Samba / NFS integrations ) , dialogs used to be less than consistent, and it used to be less than stable. Basically it isn't a swiss army file manager like konqueror was, and I was used to the absolute power than konq gave me.

Maybe that has changed in the latest releases, but I don't feel the need to go back and check it out.... for the same reason I still use konqueror as a file manager instead of Dolphin, I have it hammered into the shape I want so that it works in the way I want it to.

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pendrachken wrote: ...

The other two desktops I like, and can use easily, are XFCE4 and Pantheon.

I do hate Thunar though, there are not many file managers WORSE than it ( Finder on Mac is one, god damn it is awful ).
Hi pendrachken.

I like what Peppermint 7 has done. They have a mix of Xfce panel + LXDE as the DE + Nemo file manager. I'd love a Debian Stable spin of this.
Just install it yourself? There is nothing stopping you from setting up your desktop in that way. Initial setup might be annoying, but one you have everything set up the way you like it isn't hard to backup configs to get it the same for multiple installs.

I used to do this many many years ago with the e17 setup for DreamLinux, it looked awesome at the time, and was very usable.
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