New Poll: Vote For Your Favorite Desktop Environment
In our last poll we asked you to vote for your favorite distro; as expected Ubuntu pretty much dominated the poll with more than 57% of the votes. In my opinion, this poll ‘roughly’ reflects the Linux desktop market share out there. As with most polls there are error margins, since we didn’t add “Kubuntu”, “Xubuntu”; understandably, these users probably voted for Ubuntu. So in our next poll, we ask you to vote for your favorite Linux Desktop Environment. If you think any candidate is missing, feel free to let us know so that we can Add/Remove in the early stage of the poll. Feed subscribers will need to visit the site to vote. Poll is located on the sidebar.
So why do you prefer the Desktop Environment you voted for, over others? Let us know.
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Openbox + BmPanel + xcompmgr works best for me . So my vote goes for openbox .
So far just plain old vanilla Gnome, but lately I’ve been experimenting with LXDE, lite yet smooth ;)
Not trying to be a dick or anything but it should be pointed out that actually the poll is quite unaccurate because neither fluxbox nor openbox are Desktop Environments, they are Window Managers and the difference between one thing and the other is big
Maybe it will be better to have one poll for DEs (kde, gnome, xfce, lxde, enlightenment) and other for WMs (fluxbox, openbox, blackbox, ion3, twm, ctwm…)
Anyway, since there’s no other poll I vote for flux :P
Hi lkp, you are not being a dick, but since you asked.
Quoting from Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment)
“The term desktop environment did not originally refer to software, and was adopted as a way to describe a particular style of user interface provided by that software. Desktop environment therefore is first and foremost describing the style of a user interface, in that it is like a desktop.
However a program, or set of programs which simulate a desktop environment may sometimes themselves be referred to as a desktop environment, with a desktop environment being considered either a window manager, or a suite of programs which includes a window manager. There is some disagreement on precisely what constitutes a desktop environment, and how one distinguishes one from a window manager.
While historically, and even logically, this may seem incorrect as a suite of applications are obviously not required to provide desktop metaphor, suites such as the The K Desktop Environment have popularized this usage, and may provide a more complete desktop environment consisting of a number of supporting programs, configuration tools, and in the case of KDE a large number of other applications such as office and productivity software, and games.
A more correct term for application suites like KDE might be something more along the lines of a desktop manager. However for the moment the term desktop environment in relation to computer science both refers to a type of user interface, and to a lesser extent a particular class of window manager.“
I know the difference between Desktop Environment and Window manager, but for me the argument is the same as “we should specifically mention that Linux is actually a kernel every time we talk about Linux”; this serves no purpose, other than being politically correct.
Or should I call it GNU/Linux for next time? :)
Thanks for voting.
This result is pretty much in line with the result one gets by comparing the names of distros in Google Trends. It might reflect the use of distros or it might reflect the number of users active in the Internet forums.
Openbox it’s what I need. It’s fast and easy to configure.
@Pavs Maybe you should call it GNU/Linux. It doesn’t sound nice like Linux does though, so I choose be politically incorrect and say Linux.
I use Gnome with the Clearlooks theme because I’m a sucker for overlarge fonts, really big buttons and blue highlights. It’s also the first DE I ever used, which may help some.
@pavs:
Valid point :) although (based on wikipedia’s definition) I could say that Firefox is a desktop environment because it is a styled UI provided by a piece of software, in this case, Firefox software, but this will sound to far away of a proper description so the question will be what is “a particular styled UI”
I prefer to describe a desktop environment as something more rich than WMs in the sense that a DE includes it’s own WM but isn’t all dependable on it, a DE offers internal capabilities that let you use desktop icons (fluxbox can’t do that by itself for example, you need other software like idesk to do that), a DE is commonly able to parse .desktop files…
But since there’s not a mandatory definition for the term I guess that anything that can give the user the “feel” that is actually working over a desktop, may be considered valid.
My favorite desktop environment would have to be Fluxbox. It runs well on my couple of older computers, but on my laptop and good desktop, I go with the big favorite - Gnome.
Ubuntu rules!
Yeah, GNOME rules! :D I use it too, as it was the default. I have plans though to revive som old boxes with some lightweight stuff.