Desktop GUI Poll - 2009

[NWAdawg]

Openbox for me.

[oz]

KDE4 has driven me to Gnome, at least for now!

[dijetlo]

Slackware has cast Gnome into the outer darkness, it's heresy to even discuss it. Every time you people use the word "gnome" I think of a small mythical woodland being.
KDE is too much like windows. If something pops up asking me if I'm sure I want the system to do what I just told it to do, it really ticks me off. Who's in charge here, anyway?My hammer doesn't ask me if I'm sure I want to hit the nail, what's up with you?
XFCE4 is kewl, unfortunately I'm not. It's just heavy enough that every time something hickups I wonder how much #*!@ memory the #*#! desktop is sucking up.
Which left only fluxbox in the holy distro.
If you want it to do much more than sit there and look at you, you have to build it.
Fortunately, there is lots of documentation and it's pretty easy to do. They encourage you to work on it by making the install desktop frighteningly ugly, it's a little billboard for change.
Deep down, I'd like to see Cardinal Volkerding rescind the Fatwah against that little mythical woodland being...I think most of us slackhead zombies agree on that...but you didn't hear it from me.

[graphicks]

I don't have a lot of experience, but I like GNOME. I have tried XFCE and don't like it as well. JWM is not bad for a light windows manager. I actually prefer JWM over XFCE, although neither one has the features of GNOME.

[blinky]

Currently on gnome, but thinking about going back to fvwm2 - wish someone still maintaining olvwm. With desktops clean (less icons/clutter/panels etc) better for me. Right mouse to popup a menu what else do you really need?

Sometimes get the feeling kde/gnome developers have lost the plot or smoked something weird.

[SagaciousKJB]

I tried KDE4 and didn't like it. It seemed a bit clumsy in terms of configuring Window behavior, but most importantly it broke support for two X screens, which is the way I've always preferred to watch media.

KDE3 remains my default choice, mostly because it's just more intuitive to me. I think coming from a Windows world, I got use to there being so much menu-driven things, and the reconfigurability of window behavior is as great as it is easy. It might not be the most amazing thing in the world, but when it comes to being able to tell your window manager to open up a certain application, at any point on the screen, maximized or minimized, etc., KDE3 excels at allowing you to do it easily.

GNOME has always bugged me because it seems like a lot of the functionality that is in the Window Manager depends on the distribution that you're using it with. In Ubuntu doing some system managment with the GUI menu is not completely unintuitive, but on a more vanilla Debian install like Etch, I find myself more apt to just use "useradd" rather than try to find the way to do it in GNOME.

I haven't really tried XFCE or Fluxbox, but I do like WindowMaker when it comes to really lightweight Window managers. It's really small and pretty simple to configure and use; no real bells or whistles, so it's nice to put on a server if you have graphical applications like Etherape that you want to run.

[MikeTbob]

KDE rules!
3.5 works for me, but I like to tinker with 4.x too, just for snorts and giggles.

KDE is too much like windows.

I've not seen a BSOD yet, so it can't be too much like Windows.

[dijetlo]

I've not seen a BSOD yet, so it can't be too much like Windows.

Just remember Mike, it's not a bug, it's a feature....

[jayd512]

Just remember Mike, it's not a bug, it's a feature....

<chuckle> Nice!

[Artesia]

Gnome...

I keep wanting to try KDE to try to get to know it better, but every time I run a live CD of something with KDE on it, it just seems so alien to me and I end up installing Gnome.