Which desktop enviroment do you prefer?

[Krazed]

Which do you prefer? Don't just vote, post a few reasons why!

[deadly7]

I said XFCE..
Back when I used Linux, it was on my 400mhz craptard PC, so I didn't want the bloat of KDE, didn't want to find and download Gnome, and XFCE had the little mouse. ^^ Anyways, I liked XFCE due to its being lightweight, having multiple desktops (although I wish I could have figured out how to splitscreen them if I needed to), and I liked the fact that you could just drag across the screen to switch desktops. Plus, the "start" menu was a right-click away, I think.

[Krazed]

This is actually a tough choice for me. As of right now, I use gnome because it's very easy to work with and very friendly with just about everything. Coming in a close second is definitely FluxBox, it's speed, customization, and toolbar makes it a powerful and good desktop environment in my eyes.

[rabbit]

I like WM because I'm a iago whore....and it worked really well on my old 255MHz Pentium.

[Explicit]

I like WM because I'm a iago whore....and it worked really well on my old 255MHz Pentium.

:)

[Joe]

I like Gnome. It's clean and easy to use, and it fits well with Gtk (which pwns).

[Ergot]

I love Fluxbox... but I have waaaayyy too much fun with KDE3 and CompizFusion :P!

[Towelie]

I've generally used KDE in linux... but I don't use it often :P

[Newby]

fluxbox is a winner! Quick and simple. :)

[Sidoh]

It definitely depends on what for.  If it's on a workstation, I don't think I'd want to use anything other than KDE or Gnome.  The others are a bit sparse for what I'm looking for in that.  If it's a server and all I need X for is maybe making use of some of the graphical tools available, then XFCE or Fluxbox is probably what I'd go with.  If you're planning to use Ubuntu, it's probably best to stick with whatever it comes with.  If you want to use others, download the distribution of Ubuntu designed for it (eg, KUbuntu for KDE).  Not sure if you're doing that, but it'd probably be for the best.

[Krazed]

It definitely depends on what for.  If it's on a workstation, I don't think I'd want to use anything other than KDE or Gnome.  The others are a bit sparse for what I'm looking for in that.  If it's a server and all I need X for is maybe making use of some of the graphical tools available, then XFCE or Fluxbox is probably what I'd go with.  If you're planning to use Ubuntu, it's probably best to stick with whatever it comes with.  If you want to use others, download the distribution of Ubuntu designed for it (eg, KUbuntu for KDE).  Not sure if you're doing that, but it'd probably be for the best.

I don't like KDE at all, and I'm not really looking to change my own personl DE, just seeing what everyone else likes. Personally it's a tradeoff between gnome and fluxbox every once in a while.

[Falcon]

XFCE or fluxbox cause its lightweight and works well.

[Sidoh]

I don't like KDE at all, and I'm not really looking to change my own personl DE, just seeing what everyone else likes. Personally it's a tradeoff between gnome and fluxbox every once in a while.

I haven't used the more recent versions of KDE enough to say whether I like it or not.  I used it for a while last year when I was messing around with dual booting Slackware, but I eventually ended up using Windows all of the time.  Now I hardly ever use Windows.  Ubuntu is awesome.

To be honest, I'm not the kind of person that likes changing the "look and feel" of my desktop much.  I'll change the background and maybe the color theme, but that's about as far as I go.  I'm comfortable and familiar with Gnome and I don't think any of the other desktop environments have any advantages over Gnome that warrant me switching to them.

[iago]

kde recently released version 4.0. Might be interesting to have a look at that, I haven't tried it yet.

[Warrior]

4.0 is decent, 4.1 will be what it should of been.