Favorite desktop environment

allisonk

My home machine is running Xubuntu using the xfce session.
My work laptop is running Win7.
The work machine has a much larger screen, and a full size keyboard, so when I bring it home, I do tend to use it more than the actual home machine. I cannot honestly say I have a preference for either.

christian

Gnome Shell for me. Simple and efficient. Gets the job done. And it looks good also!

leirom

Ubuntu, but?

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wave

Ok, I admit that I like and use Unity.
Alternatives are LXDE, Xfce and Window Maker (yay!).

QuHno

When Gnome changed to a direction I didn't like, I switched to Cinnamon and never looked back.

greybeard

@ArtH:

only KDE on Mageia4 x64

disappointed by Mageia4
revert back to KDE under PCLinuxOS64

Good to hear I was not the only one disappointed with Mageia4.

When I upgraded my laptop, it killed my wireless and made a mess of several other things.
Switched back to OpenSuse 12.3 KDE (with which there is a very strong love/hate relationship…

alako

I was an Openbox fan before, because of Crunchbang. Was and still is really lightweight and easily customizable with his XML config files. Since a year, I've grown an interest for tiling windows managers, starting with Awesome and Dwm. In the end, I was quite confused when trying to personnalise and configure them (needing to at least understand Lua or C), so I tried I3 and now I'm in a paradise ; plain text config files easily understandable, even more then Openbox, with sane shortcuts and a great handling of dualscreen setups. For now, it's my WM of choice, but I keep an eye on KDE5 which is promising. I don't think I would use it for everyday tasks but it looks really modern compared to others popular DE like unity or gnome (personnal opinion).

ahsan

I prefer KDE and use KDE 4.14 at the moment.

The_Solutor

Trinity (kde 3.x)

https://www.trinitydesktop.org

jstolte

I've been mostly using Lumina the past few months on a FreeBSD 10.1 laptop. The project has come a long way in a short time. I sometimes switch to Enlightenment 19 for a change. Previously, I used XFCE and fluxbox.

axxl

@alako:

so I tried I3 and now I'm in a paradise ; plain text config files easily understandable, even more then Openbox, with sane shortcuts and a great handling of dualscreen setups.

I was interested in i3-wm and tried it for some days and it's my windows-manager of choice at home on my very weak notebook. I don't miss anything on it, it's great.

At work I cannot use it. My workflows there are different and I need a lot more windows. So I stick on Unity with the Unity-Tweak tool and some other tools. The idea of Unity with the bar at the left and the central menubar is nice and very good solved. Unfortunetaly it's hard to customize without additional tools.