Well choose which one is the best. I think KDE has a better interface with ease of use. It also is pretty easy to manage and will provide a welcome environment to new *nix users.

Aqua/Quartz of course!

Alright, fine. I'm rather fond of Compiz/Beryl/XGL/AIGLX/etc setups, as long as it has that I don't really care

psssshhh.. who uses a gui?

I do like playing text terminal only BSD style games w/out loading a GUI.

Yay Blackbox. Interestingly enough it choose the wrong item. So add a point to Blackbox. I'm suprised you even included it

Im good in the Linux Environment. Also, your an Admin and I already voted. Go make your vote count as blackbox.

Blackbox totally sucked when I used it.
My vote goes to Fluxbox.

FreeBSD+Gnome=

I'm a pretty pictures whore. But... my gentoo rig has no X. (erm, scratch that, I installed X yesterday for Wine purposes. Darwine wouldn't cooperate with my Powerbook )

By me a graphical interface should have the following:

- It looks good
- Ease of use
- Advanced Features
- Not n00bed like MS Bob
- Performance
- Stability

4Dwm (under IRIX Interactive Desktop)

I prefer CLI to GUI on my nix machine. Works well enough for Linux type work.

I like CLI, UNO and fluxbox.

Sixty votes and not one nextstep/openstep nomination?

Nextstep. But a close second choice would be bourne <g>

//R

I prefer KDE.

xgl+compiz+KDE.

Enlightenment E17. Looks great, works great, it's great ;-)

Ubuntu + GNOME, but I also like KDE...

E17.

E17 is incredible, but it's been under "DEVELOPMENT" for ages. I want to use YellowDogLinux with E17, but I may need a PS3

My fave is KDE by far.

Don't take away my linuxfb, though.

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Where is enlightenment17. It was my chose on my debian. This screenshot from my old debian(dualmonitor). I am using mac os x now

Can people post images please.

Firstly I know very little about Linux. In fact my first actual use of a linux system was only a few hours ago. It was Ubuntu. I installed it on my friends 900mhz pc and given that both of us are windows and mac users we were somewhat disappointed with the looks of Ubunto. OS X looked soooo much better and dare I say probably so did XP. I chose to install Ubuntu simply because it was a major favourite of many people but it just seemed dead.

So I'm keeping an eye on this topic to help me decide on what to try next. For people like me who know close to nothing about this stuff can people give a bit of detail so that others can google with ease.

http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?xcontent...x12x13x14x15x16

This just for kde but it has huge recourse in it.

SunOS 4.8 CDE.

KDE4 is going to be the best for a LONG time.

My favorite is the spartan CDE !!!!

Gnome, simply powerful !

Cheers

Hey AcePlayer, you might try Kubuntu. It is ubuntu with KDE instead of GNOME and looks a lot better/easier. It is part of the Ubuntu project so everything you read about for ubuntu, you can do in kubuntu. Enjoy.

Thanks a lot dude. I might just do that.

Well, as I obviously said, KDE owns. I can't wait for the final version of KDE 4 to come out this fall. I now just play around with the alphas

I'm a Gnome guy, but I do use KDE on my old PIII 1Ghz I have at home. I like fluxbox as a WM too. Beryl/Compiz/AIGLX/XGL are all slightly overrated. The features are all nice and all, but it's just eye candy.

I like XFCE4 and Beryl

8½ - I love it.
CDE - for work.

Gnome-AIGLX-Beryl

Kubuntu (KDE), but I installed the GNOME package into Kubuntu so I could play around with it. I like both, but KDE is prettier. GNOME seems like it's more about practical use, and less about visual effects, while KDE manages to balance the two nicely.

Can't wait for KDE4... might just install an alpha for the hell of it.

Enlightenment DR17

I use GNOME. Mainly out of habit.

Originally I was a KDE guy, but I got sick off the effects and eye candy slowing down my very old machine. Now I'm used to GNOME i doubt I'll change.
Although i often use IceWM on older machines or test machines as it's so simple and fast.

KDE for me...but I really don't use Linux that much, anymore. It's all Aqua now! ;-)

GNOME and a custom Beryl theme is just great for me.

CDE FTW!

Not. If I'm using an OS other than OS X or Windows with an X implementation, I usually go for Gnome, but on some of the slower machines I have to use, fluxbox tends to be my choice of the day. That said, it's uncommon for me to be using a GUI at all on anything other than my own machine - most of my Un*x sysadmin work is done in emacs trhough an SSH session.

Gnome for me, though IceWM works great.

Xfce I love it

So configurable, compositor and stuff is nice

And it uses less RAM than KDE and gnome

*votes Xfce*

KDE is really nice, especially with Beryl

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>
> Frederic told that the options from the PPD file are intentionally mot
> listed in the printing dialog, the usability team of GNOME was against
> listing these options. They clutter the dialog and can be more confusing
> than useful to the user.

I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.

This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of
Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will
use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long
since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.

Please, just tell people to use KDE.

Linus





so thats what i gotsta say.

I voted KDE because its really easy to use and the layout just makes sense. When Im using a Linux distro with KDE as the Desktop Environment I dont have to sit and think "Ok.. Im using KDE now.."

i like KDE very much,but GNOME look`s retro and i like that 2 ...

When my sister came to see me in Leeds, in July 2004, I created a user account for her, with KDE as the default.
She had never used Linux before. She told me that KDE felt immediately familiar. She didn't like Gnome very much.
Before Ubuntu, it was common wisdom that KDE was the best desktop environment for Windows switchers. I am still of that opinion. Besides I still find KDE the most feature rich and intuitive DE out there.

KDE

If I had and wanted to spend infinite time configuring stuff I would use FVWM, some of the window managers which actually MANAGES windows and just doesn't look fancy (ratpoison and similair) might be nice to.

But KDE is that I prefer.