What desktop Envirment should i get

**George Harrison** · 06-26-2005

Originally Posted by Slip

I suggest GNOME bacause all the applications that I use under Linux are GTK (KDE uses QT). Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Gimp, Gaim, and whichever other popular application you can think of is GTK.

Yeah get Gnome; it is nice, although I have had bad experiences with 2.10

***Dapper Dan*** · 06-26-2005

IceWM will run all KDE and Gnome apps as well as under Gnome or KDE, only twice as fast...

**mechmaster** · 06-26-2005

I vote GNOME, nice DE.

**borromini** · 06-26-2005

I suggest you get Xfce

Truly rocks!

**psic** · 06-26-2005

Originally Posted by borromini

I suggest you get Xfce

Truly rocks!

I second that. Fast and simple, what more do you need

**hal** · 06-26-2005

i often get tired of kde and use enlightenment for a while. it is fast, pretty, light.. altough i think kde is more complete and easy to use. systray, kioslaves, etc...

**eatinglemur** · 06-26-2005

I just switched back to GNOME for a few reasons... it's more well integrated with Fedora Core, it seems to load a little faster, and somebody told me about shift+drag, so now I can neaten up my desktop the way I like it.

**semlak** · 06-26-2005

Yeah, I've been using xfce4 for almost a year now, and I like it. It isn't as customizable as I would like, but it is pretty good.

Also, I use fedora, so i install gnome and kde and most of their apps to use. They all work find with xfce

Another one I liked is icewm. I kind of drew the conclusion that it is more customizable than xfce4 (and gnome and kde), and also easy to configure, and easy to get a basic, un-crippled setup going.

I wish the fedora people worked on getting a tighter KDE setup out of the box. I think it isn't as sleek as it could be (it looks better when I boot Knoppix)

Anyway, your desktop choice is definitely a personal preference.

**guest18** · 08-14-2005

is icevm thefastest desktop evironment out there ?
anyone got any comparison between one after another ?

I do know icevm is faster than gnome and kde
and all review I found is based losely around this 2
whenever I try to search review for icevm

**psic** · 08-14-2005

It's hard to say, since there are many things that can affect the overall speed of any WM. IceWM is very fast and light, but something like Fluxbox or Windowmaker is easily just as fast, if not faster.

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