Kenta Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 I use ion3, because real men use tiled windows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-407471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilis Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Gnome is my interface of choice, followed very closely by Xfce. KDE just feels kinda clunky; though more flashy and such on the surface, it misses the "slick" and streamlined feel of Gnome. IMHO Gnome is more Mac-ish while KDE is more like Windows . As to Beryl (just a WM so I used it as part of Gnome). It's been about 5-6 months since I updated it on my Linux machine so it might have improved, but last time I tried it it still felt like a beta. Crashed every now and then, and the jiggles and other effects just weren't as smooht as I'd like. Turned it off after a while. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-415445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOBSONATOR Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 I use mostly openbox in its own session, or use gnome+compiz fusion. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-431656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ik12 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Xfce is the Better: ligth but using gtk... But my favourite is the IRIX (I think) 3D Gui, mmm... I lost they name but we can see it in Jurassic park I Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-433303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ho long Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 KDE is better! I think it is friendlier than GNOME... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-436025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sponkemonke Posted August 28, 2007 Share Posted August 28, 2007 KDE, KDE, KDE It's a lot friendlier to me and it looks good out of the box. Can't wait for KDE 4 Gnome comes with ugly icons and they name their apps horribly. GNU Network Object Model Environment Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-437162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDRacer48 Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 GNOME Its clean. Simple. and Elegant. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-443625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffton Beach Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 KDE. Optional Mac style menubar is nice. Mostly though, it lets me do what I want instead of telling me what I want. Want your button order to be OK, Cancel? KDE has you covered. Want it the other way? You can change it. Gnome forces cancel, OK. There's other stuff like that. I'm very set in my habits, and don't like seeing stuff like that change Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-450382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conroe Mac Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Wow, I didn't think Gnome and KDE would be so close! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-482354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porto Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 KDE, because i was used to a Windows-like-GUI. Now i don't care anymore. Gnome rox also, because of it's simplicity and cleanness. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-486751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Wow, I didn't think Gnome and KDE would be so close! Well, before Ubuntu, KDE was always the most used GUI, by far. It was a given that it was the most user friendly. Because Ubuntu, for some unknown reason, had to change everything, they changed that as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-486770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagbag Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Openbox + Xcompmgr + Kiba-Dock on my VIA box. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-487974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 I don't know if the Beryl Project is considered as a GUI (I think it should be) but its my fave. Alessandro, you should add Beryl to the poll list. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-488069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatshitcat Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Beryl/Compiz-fusion is a desktop effects engine and not GUI. And Alessandro, why do you keep bashing Ubuntu in almost every *nix topic you post in? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-506030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Beryl/Compiz-fusion is a desktop effects engine and not GUI.And Alessandro, why do you keep bashing Ubuntu in almost every *nix topic you post in? In this particular instance I wasn't bashing anything, only stating a fact. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-506424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Well its sorta true..seen a lot of Ubuntu bashing, not in this topic but in others. Ubuntu continues to be one of the most popular Linux OSes used to date. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-506576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Ubuntu continues to be one of the most popular Linux OSes used to date. Popularity based on hype never lasts too long. A few years ago Gentoo was very popular. Look where it is now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-507005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatshitcat Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Aww come on now. This is groundless. Ubuntu is the only distribution I ever tried in which every single thing worked out of the box, including my printer and scanner. openSUSE for example. It took vista out of MBR, and after a few weeks of regular usage, no tweaking, the bootscreen dissappeared just like that. Also two days after reinstaling it I have found out that it messed up the file permissions and KDE just would't start. These are the things ubuntu have and opensuse lacks. The things you call "hype". I'm gonna stop now. No flames. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-507172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 My experience is just the opposite. And overall the percentage of people having issues with Ubuntu is alarmingly high. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-507188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatshitcat Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 The number of users having problems grows with the number of overall users of any kind of software software. back to topic I love GNOME but can't wait for KDE4 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-507213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 The number of users having problems grows with the number of overall users of any kind of software software. That is obvious. But not the percentage, that shouldn't. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-507233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac-mini Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 My experience is just the opposite. And overall the percentage of people having issues with Ubuntu is alarmingly high. ive had good experiences with both but i have openSUSE right now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-514852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 i have openSUSE right now And how do you like it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-515199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 I guess it would be pointless to say "OMG KDE SUXZZ", because I've not used it much. I do prefer Gnome, as I have used it more and XFCE runs really well on my Powerbook, making that a close second. However, I am downloading KDE 4 RC1 as we speak Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-515234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac-mini Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 And how do you like it? once i switched my K menu to the normal KDE one i like it im still trying to figure out how to install gnome to compare because there isnt a "gnome" package like there is on almost every other distro ive used (fedora, ubuntu, debian, gentoo) Edit: found it i am using the community version because i didnt want to use a DL DVD i tried to install KDE4 RC1 but it crases when i select it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37330-your-favorite-nix-gui/page/3/#findComment-515268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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