Ryu-ka Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 I've used all of these window organizers before with Gentoox, Kubuntu, and Fedora 9. As far as this goes, my favorite is KDE, pretty much because it looks nice, and it's easy to use. If you vote, please explain why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehnick Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 I'd use Gentoo or Arch before Ubuntu. Otherwise, Xubuntu for XFCE. The only difference between these Ubuntu "distros" is the window manager they come bundled with on default. You should have just asked what was our favorite window manager as that's essentially what this topic is about, not everyone uses Ubuntu you know. Also, KDE is trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 I've only tried two of these distributions They are not distributions, as tehnick rightly said. They are different flavours (different DE or Window Manager) of the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Adams Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 For the longest time I used KDE but now I use Gnome. Can't say why , just do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jengajam2 Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Whenever I use Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, etc I always use Gnome to get the graphical features, but on on Arch and Slackware I always use Xmonad Tiling Window Manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranguvar Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 So far my favorite is PekWM. Very configurable (and no XML like Openbox!), supports tabbing and lots of other nifty things, and is by far the most theme-able WM I've ever seen. I will likely convert to a tiling WM soon, though. If I had to go with a DE, it'd be E17 (buggy, but slick and faster than Xfce) or Xfce (lightweight and stable, simple compositing). Maybe KDE, maybe... it's masssive and buggy (IMHO), but I really hope it'll get more stable in 4.4, as I end up enjoying it anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrsetrdr Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 I stick with Gnome, but consider Xfce to be a close second choice. I do not care for KDE at all, but that's just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pebcak Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 FVWM. And btw. KDE, XFCE and Gnome still are DEs, not DMs or WMs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aylamrin Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 FVWM. And btw. KDE, XFCE and Gnome still are DEs, not DMs or WMs. compiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leafhound Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 Xfce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nirbo Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 I've always been a fan of KDE. KDE 4 started out pretty shakily, and I wouldn't run it on an older machine... but it's always been pretty solid. And who knows, we may someday get a K3B for 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b2bwild Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Well, xmonad is a Window manager but Gnome, KDE and XFCE are Desktop Environments, they are not desktop manager. (some desktop managers are pcmanfm, nautilus, xfcedm4) as far as for my favorite Fluxbox, its not listed but voted for Gnome instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmarques Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Oh man, you forgot something... Metacity > GNOME Window Manager KWM > KDE Window Manager. GNOME isn't a windowmanager, it's a DESKTOP Environment, and obviously you are not a Linux user for a long time, neither you know much about what you speak, because you forgot some of the most window managers used: - Enlightenment (http://www.enlightenment.org) - Window Maker (http://www.windowmaker.org) - BlackBox - AfterSTEP - Sawfish (previously used on GNOME, before Metacity) - FluxBOX (the most used lightweight WM) - BlackBOX (predecessor of FluxBOX, still very popular). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon19 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 I like gnome as my main manager for my sort of powerful laptop, but I like XFCE for my little P3 servers i build as its lightweight and goes easy on very low spec systems as it doesnt hog resorces. I've been trying linux for the past year and a bit and those two are the best IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wargod18 Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 I love gnome it is my favorite by far. I can't get KDE4 to work for me it seems broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngawethuu Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 I've been using CTWM for years and years. (i've almost dumped .ctwmrc config) but it became obsolete. It was stable, small memory-footprint, running almost everywhere (on my x86 with netbsd, sparc with sunos etc.) I've also tried FVWM btw. Then i gave a try to blackbox / fluxbox stuff good but not really stuck there, and returned back to windowmaker, and windowmaker was also discontinued. Currently using xfce, so far so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Like in most other polls of this kind, GNOME beats KDE 4 by a long shot (even if this is a small sample). In another forum I was called a liar for saying so, they said that polls like this are flawed... But we know that our polls aren't flawed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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