Your Favorite Desktop Enviroment

[rucadulu]

What is your favorite desktop environment and why do you feel it is better than the rest?

Mine is Gnome followed closely by Enlightenment.

[smartboyathome]

See recurring discussions, here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1093697).

My favorite DE (technically WM) is Enlightenment DR17 (E17). It is both light and filled with eye candy. It is unstable at times though.

[C!oud]

DE: KDE 4
WM: AwesomeWM although I do love DWM and evilwm

[chucky chuckaluck]

huh! i can't believe no one ever asked this before. openbox, ftw!

[Greg]

I've become very partial to StumpWM lately.

[VMalloy]

KDE4 its quite prettier than the othors.

[namegame]

KDE4 its quite prettier than the othors.

That's subjective.

[ninjapirate89]

Vista, because it is far superior to everything else in terms of everything....j/k...I use GNOME.

[konqueror7]

gnome all-in-all,,,but sometime Xfce,,,depends on the mood...

[kuja]

KDE4, though not quite where KDE3 was in every respect, is "the one". Qt, kdelibs, kparts,etc help make it as awesome as can be. So many lovely apps, and a nice DE to go with them.

[chucky chuckaluck]

KDE4 its quite prettier than the othors.

...until it says something.

[sertse]

The thing about these polls, other than the fact they are recurring. is that they never put in proper options. It always seems a fairly popular wm/de is left out and something no one really uses is put in place.

So, instead of the usual discussion lets flesh this out once and for all for all future discussions for all time. Here's a start.

Gnome
KDE
Xfce
Enlightenment
Fluxbox
OpenBox
LXDE (Or is it Openbox?)
Awesome (Most popular of the tilings)
IceWM
JWM. (Because it's the common WM of all the mini distros at some point; Puppy, DSL, Slitaz)

I'm focusing on ones that are at least somewhat known and regularly used; where can be legitimately dismiss those not as in the poll as too unknown.

Feel free to add or remove. Just a starting point :)

[Artificial Intelligence]

Thread moved to Recurring Discussions.

[Ericyzfr1]

I had to deal with Windows until XP Pro, I never had Vista. I tried KDE3 on Mandriva, it was a good DE but the performance (speed)was not much better than XP, I also tried KDE4, but again the speed performance is an issue. Since I switched to Ubuntu, Gnome has been very reliable in all aspects, speed, ease of use, etc..Everything I need is there, don't know what more to say...... Almost perfect.

[pimz]

KDE4 followed by XFCE, i love XFCE

[Simian Man]

...until it says something.

Dude, you are so funny :).

[Ron G]

What is your favorite desktop environment and why do you feel it is better than the rest?

Mine is Gnome followed closely by Enlightenment.

Mine is LXDE, and its not on the list. The lightest, and fastest I have ever seen. browser opens before my click is finished, and pages open very fast.

Ron G

[TheLastDodo]

Apple's OS X frontend, for its general ease of use and polish, followed closely by Fluxbox, which works wonderfully on netbooks.

[meeples]

gnome for me :)

i tried kubuntu once, i just got the feeling it was doing a really bad job at trying to look like vista, it was ugly :)

[Namtabmai]

WM: Awesome
DE: None

Desktop environments are so 2008.

[Anzan]

Fluxbox with GNOME essential services such as network-manager.

An associate is running Xmonad with GNOME. I've tried Xmonad and like it, but haven't tried using it as GNOME's WM though.

I have Fluxbox configured exactly as I need it and so am reluctant to log out. It would take about a minute and a half to get all of my tools runnning in the appropriate workspaces again and that just seems too long these days.

[gjoellee]

I love KDE 4's design ang UI, but it my computer is a little old so KDE gets slow... As soon as I get a new comuter I will install KDE on it.

My favorite environment now has to be Enlightment DR 17. But because of usability reasons I am forced to use GNOME.

[oack]

I don't have favourites

[darthmob]

openbox with gnome. having the toolbars from gnome and the functionality from openbox combined provides a nice experience!

[Mark76]

ROX DE with the OroboROX window manager for me :D

[Kilon]

Where is macos ?

[TheLastDodo]

Where is macos ?

Third option from the top. (OS X 10.x)

[TheIdiotThatIsMe]

Gnome, although (I'm sure like most) it's configured pretty beyond stock lol. But the fact I can still customize it exactly how I want, and the responsiveness is far better (for me personally, YMMV) than KDE4 on the same system, made it a winner for me.

[Kilon]

Third option from the top. (OS X 10.x)


I am blind

thanks

[pol666]

KDE4 KDE4 KDE4, Before I thought that Gnome was well, but when I start to use KDE4 I didn't come back again.

[PacSci]

I went with Xfce on this one. It's light and fast, it doesn't have some of the graphical issues GNOME has, and it's more customizable. Though really, I'm working with this setup:


Session Manager: xfce4-session
Window Manager: Compiz/Compiz Fusion (w/ Emerald)
File Manager: Thunar (though I'm thinking about swapping for Nautilus)
Panel: xfce4-panel
Desktop: xfdesktop


So in reality, I've already swapped out one of the major components, with maybe another on the way.

[XubuRoxMySox]

LXDE (http://lxde.org)! Prob'ly the most lightweight desktop environment to date (window managers don't count as desktop environments). Looks kinda sorta like WinXP. Simple, fast, easy, very stingy on resources.

-Robin