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Which Graphical User Interface (desktop environment) do you primarily use on your Linux desktop?
I don't (yet) primarily use Linux on my desktop
5% (925 votes)
Blackbox
2% (292 votes)
GNOME
29% (5252 votes)
Enlightenment
5% (825 votes)
IceWM
1% (259 votes)
KDE
48% (8578 votes)
WindowMaker
2% (285 votes)
XFCE
4% (799 votes)
Other (please post a comment letting us know which one)
4% (719 votes)
Total votes: 17934
Carlie Fairchild - Fri, 2021-04-01 10:07.
Fluxbox
I use fluxbox with rox and gdesklets - very lightweight and fast plus it looks great and easy to customize.
Fluxbox
A light wm, easy to configure.
fluxbox
I use fluxbox because it is light, fast, and very easy to configure.
Which desktop environment do you primarily use on Linux desktop
The best (for me) is Fluxbox: highly configurable, cool, it's what you prefer.
grober
fluxbox && xfce
though I am a devotee of KDE I am lately using for my studies
an old P1-200 with fluxbox because its the faster wm ive found
so far, it's easy to customize and stable ( I used blackbox 0.65
- RPM , mdk 8.1 - on my main athlon 600 + 640 mbram but it
was unstable). Now I am doing fine with fluxbox ( slackware
package, slack 9.1) on the old iron,and the latest xfce ( source
compile) on sundays :-) . Both Qt designer and OpenOffice.org
run ok.
One last thing: kde still works at acceptable speed on a P I, if
properly configured.
XFCE
I also have gained quite respect for XFCE lately. I tsill use KDE, b/c it seems to oddly run faster, but I made KDE look like it anyways. I hope it comes along well, but KDE is still much more customizable.
One thing i dont like about XFCE though... xffm. It irks me. I click on the folder on the left... it keeps it on the left. why would i want a two paned thing if the left one was useless?
fluxbox & maybe fvwm
i use fluxbox most of the time both on my desktop and laptop with a lot of dockapps running on the slit.
sometimes though i wander off to fvwm with either themes by ikaro or taviso. they make even fvwm beautiful
ASer
Thanx
Pekwm
Pekwm rocks, been using it for two years. If the developers could get their act together and stop changing the config formats other people might actually use it.
I also really like Fluxbox, it's what I use when I can't get Pekwm. Judging from the number of Fluxbox comments, it probably should have been on the list.
Desktop
I use Fluxbox as my primarily Desktop
It's nice to see so many peop
It's nice to see so many people passionate about KDE. It's a nice transition interface for windows users but eventually gnome and others become more appealling
FLUXBOX
Chalk another one up for the flux.
put another tick on the Fluxb
put another tick on the Fluxbox count.
Fluxbox
yeah.. fluxbox! great wm
Other Graphical Interface
I use wmii. It's lightweight and has a nice interface. I've also used fluxbox and consider wmii to be as good. It's definately worth a try if you like a lightweight interface.
I use fluxbox
I use fluxbox and really like it. : )
Fluxbox
Fluxbox is lightweight, antialiased for my poor, old eyes, and gets the job done.
KDE Forever !!!
Using KDE from BlackCat times ... )
I hope it'll be cool and many hundred years after me =)
Fix bugs today, and Windows die tomorrow =)
Fluxbox. 'Nuf said.
Fluxbox.
'Nuf said.
desktop
I use fluxbox, its a clean and practical desktop without any unnecessary clutter.
FLUXBOX
I use Fluxbox most of the time... although I occasionally pop over to KDE for the nifty Control Center.
gui
I use fluxbox
Window Manager
Fluxbox noone really uses Blackbox anymore. Shrugs. Unless there is a thriving community I am unaware of.
KDE or GNOME
I do a lot of multimedia production and graphic design on my compy. I like KDE and GNOME because they seem to me to be the most friendly to multimedia programs.
I use Fluxbox
I enjoy creating my own desktop.
FluxBox
I use fluxbox on all my computers. It's simple, fast and clean with just enough eye candy.
what's wrong with...
What's wrong with eye candy? unless your running anything under a 700 Mhz, why would you want it to look barren? I'm on an 856 Mhz and KDE's eye candy isn't slowing me a bit.
Gnome and IceWM
Gnome when local, Ice when remote
Fluxbox
Other - Fluxbox
fluxbox
i'm using fluxbox for my GUI, simple, nice, clean
Fluxbox (Blackbox w/changes)
Fluxbox (Blackbox w/changes)
Lg3d?
Anyone looking forward to trying out Sun Microsystem's Lg3d.
Honestly. If you want revolutionary, you'll want a 3-D desktop. Once this comes out, all of these are going to have a lot of competition. KDE and GNOME will probably have the pressure to go 3-D. I predict that once its fully useable and accepted, Lg3d will come out on top.
Waste of Resources
I'd rather put my resources to work actually running apps instead of some bloated 3d desktop.
Waste for who?
Its only a waste if your on a damn 383 Mhz compy. By the time its ready, we'll all have compy's that are at least 5 Ghz.
Waste is waste
The amount of resources you have available is irrelevant when speaking of wasted resources. Why use up a lot of system resources simply running your desktop? The whole point of any operating system is to give your computer the ability to do work, as in run applications.
As I stated before, IN MY OPINION, using system resources to run some fancy eye candy 3d desktop is a waste. It doesn't do anything to increase productivity. If your computer is just a toy intended to look good and have lots of eye candy something like that is fine, but if it's intended to actually do work, it's a waste of resources.
Do ONE thing, do it right
It makes no difference if you have a 386, or a K7 2400+ (like I do) or an Athlon 64 4000. All of the Desktop Environments are bloated. I use fvwm2. I have a nice, clean screen with a small panel in the lower right corner with a 'Quit' and a 'Restart' button. It also displays the date and time, and lets me pick which of the 9 areas of the desktop that I want to view. Other than that, I'm a mouse-click away from menus that can access just about anything that I use more than once a week. For anything else there is konsole. (I didn't say that I don't use anything from KDE, I just don't run the whole environment. I also like kate, from KDE. It is a great text editor.
I used to use FVWM2 - it was good
I used to use FVWM2, but have since switched to Gnome. FVWM was an excellent desktop though, and I've seen nothing to beat the functionality of its pager since. You could set it to scroll around the huge virtual desktop. You could drag windows around the pager, or even off the pager. It worked well.
The only problem was that it (at the time) took a lot of work with config files to set up. It was very flexible, but hard work. That said - my desktop back in the mid 90s has a similar colour scheme and "prettyness" to XP now and was a lot prettier than other things around at the time.
hm...
https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/lg3d-getting-started.html
Try that?
better link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass
Check out the video links.
They are very impressive.
Now I Understand
Now I understand why there's so many bloody KDE related articles on this website :-( I'd rather use GNOME ... hardly ever touch KDE. I guess that's why I don't visit this site so much.
Openbox 3.2
I use Openbox 3.2 on my Fedora Core3 box, is fast and light
KDE/FB
I use both FB & KDE on two different boxes. My main system runs Debian with KDE, the second is an older system running DamnSmallLinux with FB. I like them both, but prefer KDE. FB is great for slower older boxes,but if you have the resources i'd say go for the KDE. Why not have the glit and glamour. :)
Oh yah, & I.M.H.O. Gnome sucks
KDE/FB
I use both FB & KDE on two different boxes. My main system runs Debian with KDE, the second is an older system running DamnSmallLinux with FB. I like them both, but prefer KDE. FB is great for slower older boxes,but if you have the resources i'd say go for the KDE. Why not have the glit and glamour. :)
Oh yah, & I.M.H.O. Gnome sucks
Bad Link
Bad Link, refer to above.
Fluxbox
Fluxbox
Window manager
I run Gnome but i can't stand Metacity: long life to Sawfish! =)
Which window manager?
FVWM
Fluxbox
It's not blackbox and Fluxbox deserve to be considered :-)))
ciao
KDE
I am a webmistress and use Quanta Plus to do web development. An excellent product but only available in KDE. Even if that were not the case, I still prefer KDE's polished look and feel over Gnome. Haven't really tried any others. I agree that I wish Firefox was the default browser instead of Konqueror.
I have a dual boot system (currently Kubuntu and WinXP) with my Firefox profile on a FAT32 partition so I can access my bookmarks, history, etc. from either OS. (I wouldn't dare to do that with Konqueror. I mean, what's the Windoze equivalent?)
Konqueror
I have a dual boot system (currently Kubuntu and WinXP) with my Firefox profile on a FAT32 partition so I can access my bookmarks, history, etc. from either OS. (I wouldn't dare to do that with Konqueror. I mean, what's the Windoze equivalent?)
Konqueror was written using the Mozilla source, so the older Mozilla broswer, Netscape, or possibly even Firefox, might be able to handle it.