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General => General discussion => Topic started by: darko on March 24, 2017, 12:12:25 PM

Title: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: darko on March 24, 2017, 12:12:25 PM
Hey, peeps!

I've been having fun with Sparky for the last several days and been giving the desktop envs. a drive. I'm currently using CDE since it's my favorite. Cinnamon and Mate have become too mainstream lately, lol.  :P

What do you currently use?
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: pavroo on March 24, 2017, 01:33:00 PM
Personally, I don't need much from my desktop. No fireworks, no 3D effects, to heavy environments.
It has to work on my old and new machines, so... Openbox.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: darko on March 24, 2017, 02:43:16 PM
Openbox is nice!
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: blaze on March 26, 2017, 10:01:15 PM
Openbox here too. Simple and elegant, without glitter. ;)
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: seppalta on March 27, 2017, 07:12:20 AM
 Is there another desktop besides openbox+?   ???   http://lxlinux.com/
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: Barti on March 27, 2017, 11:18:18 PM
In the past, 2 years i was only using cinnamon, later for whole year i was experimenting, and finally i am on mate and this is my favorite from half year now.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: darry1966 on April 09, 2017, 02:07:34 AM
JWM - Use it with Debian and used it with Puppy and so far like the Sparky implementation. :)
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: Geoman on May 02, 2017, 10:04:16 PM
Comon Desktop Environment.

CDE - it's the primary reason I'm using SparkyLinux!
It is the only distribution that has an official CDE installation. The installation went seamingless through APtus. And it's working for me like a charm.

You made me really happy folks!  :)
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: tenfoot on May 03, 2017, 10:10:15 AM
Sparky x64 MATE

Started with openSUSE way back in 2006 and loathed KDE.  Looked around and found LinuxMint with Gnome2.  When that was abandoned found MATE, which has improved enormously since its initial release.  Tried Cinnamon, Fluxbox, OpenBox, and JWM.  They each have their advantages but overall MATE is still my favourite.  Hadn't heard of CDE, so will have a look at it in a few moments.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: seppalta on May 03, 2017, 09:45:50 PM
Those of you using CDE, why do you like it?  What is the file-manager like?  Advantages, say relative to pcmanfm?
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: Geoman on May 04, 2017, 09:43:46 PM
Quote from: seppalta on May 03, 2017, 09:45:50 PM
Those of you using CDE, why do you like it?  What is the file-manager like?  Advantages, say relative to pcmanfm?

I worked with SGI and SUN machines in the 90ies - so there is much nostalgia here :-)
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: darko on May 12, 2017, 11:57:35 AM
Quote from: Geoman on May 02, 2017, 10:04:16 PM
Comon Desktop Environment.

CDE - it's the primary reason I'm using SparkyLinux!
It is the only distribution that has an official CDE installation. The installation went seamingless through APtus. And it's working for me like a charm.

You made me really happy folks!  :)

I can relate! :D
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: lcomedeiros on May 23, 2017, 11:29:01 PM
I use the LXQt. So easy to work and is very good.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: carlo on July 14, 2017, 10:04:57 PM
i vote for trinity!
(i used to love kde 3 and 4, but something went wron with widgets and latest kde is... awful for me)
so..so far...  trinity, cinnamon, lxqt and xfce (yes i'm a terrible noob)
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: madmarv on July 25, 2017, 05:14:32 AM
Nice to see so much love for Openbox. That's the main reason I'm here, WMs get slighted by most distros. I like IceWM as well, but overall OB is my favorite.

If I do go for a full desktop, I really like lxde. I've played with lxqt on Manjaro a bit but it's still a little rough. Have to give the Sparky flavor a try.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: bardo on November 18, 2017, 04:56:26 AM
Favorite Desktop?

Since several years, i am on GNOME (3.+), and i wouldn't want to go away, as i got used to it and enjoy its usage. Also, it is getting better over the years.

But the current sparky distros don't seem to provide it out-of-the-box, which, in a way, seems to indicate, the devs probably dont have as strong  a hardware at their hands, as i do. :-(
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: blaze on November 18, 2017, 09:58:41 AM
I seriously doubt that hardware are the cause of not having a GNOME edition.

More probable cause is this: "SparkyLinux is a Debian-based Linux distribution which provides ready to use, out of the box operating system with a set of slightly customized lightweight desktops." From the about on the Sparky homepage.

Let's see if Pavroo chimes in. :)
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: penguin on November 18, 2017, 10:06:05 AM
xcfe !
I have tried lxde,lxqt,mate and still I come back to it.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: Reziac on November 20, 2017, 07:47:36 PM
Since I'm already here... roughly in order:

Trinity
KDE (after beating it with a stick until it agrees to look like itself again)
LXQt
JWM (for Puppy)
Cinnamon (in a pinch)

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and way down below "rather stick forks in my eyes", Gnome3.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: p-472 on November 30, 2017, 11:54:23 PM
LXDE and MATE (Gnome2) :P
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: slide9595 on May 07, 2019, 03:00:44 AM
I know it's not popular, but I enjoy Gnome.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: dbarron on June 11, 2019, 01:05:05 AM
I'm weird (and I'm old too), so I remember Enlightenment from day 1, and am enjoying running it again.  Other than that I prefer Gnome or KDE.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: manyroads on June 20, 2019, 04:05:32 AM
xfce...
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: Sergio 1 on June 20, 2019, 03:54:54 PM
I recently tried to install KDE and try it on my old machine, but .... nothing happened - from the word ... nothing at all - just the brake system and ... return to LXQt
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: polard22 on July 02, 2019, 03:54:16 PM
LXQt is my favourite
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: dhinds on July 04, 2019, 11:28:38 PM
Quote from: pavroo on March 24, 2017, 01:33:00 PM
Personally, I don't need much from my desktop. No fireworks, no 3D effects, to heavy environments.
It has to work on my old and new machines, so... Openbox.

OB does the job with fewer resources and doesn't get in the way.

(I use the xfce4-panel with it, along with the lightweight panel above).

LXQt is coming along though (and includes OB).
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: Amelia742 on July 07, 2019, 08:04:22 PM
Hi,
I use cinnamon. I like it because it's sleek and polished. It has a Familiar interface and pretty customizable.


Dafont Showbox Adam4adam
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: manyroads on July 09, 2019, 01:55:00 AM
BSPWM & xfce4/.... but then what do I know?
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: 21grams on July 09, 2019, 09:23:14 PM
MATE / xfce4 .. MATE on sparky (since 4.02 kernel) and still running on the same testing since 2016.

Quote from: manyroads on July 09, 2019, 01:55:00 AM
BSPWM & xfce4/.... but then what do I know?

Quite a bit really - enjoyed your tutorial for antix / xfce which gave me room to try MATE on it.

Had an attempt using that tutorial as a guide to give MATE a go on antix with sparky repos to some degree of success cautiously (yes I noted the non-systemd idea for sparky) but the overhead of no X conky and a few other hidden gems made it patchy but useable. Might look at a respin time permitting as usual.

Still lovin sparky for its crisp and easy use.
Title: Re: Your Favorite Desktop Environment?
Post by: manyroads on July 12, 2019, 12:54:38 AM
Wow, thank you for the kind words @21grams.  I would move to Sparky for a bunch of reasons, but I prefer to remain off of systemd if possible (and that's getting to be difficult). So for now that's type of old guy bias means I will stay with antiX & MX.