Favorite Window Manager

[Ryu-ka]

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.

[tehnick]

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.

[Alessandro17]

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.

[Kane Adams]

For the longest time I used KDE but now I use Gnome.

Can't say why , just do.

[jengajam2]

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.

[Ranguvar]

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.

[hrsetrdr]

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.

[pebcak]

FVWM.

 

And btw. KDE, XFCE and Gnome still are DEs, not DMs or WMs.

[aylamrin]

FVWM.

 

And btw. KDE, XFCE and Gnome still are DEs, not DMs or WMs.

 

compiz

[leafhound]

Xfce

[Nirbo]

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.

[b2bwild]

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

[nmarques]

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).

[Simon19]

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.

[wargod18]

I love gnome it is my favorite by far. I can't get KDE4 to work for me it seems broken.

[ngawethuu]

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.

[Alessandro17]

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.