What desktop environment do you guys use?

russell664 · 22 Dec 2014 at 13:51

Hi all,

I'm curious what desktop environment do you use?

I use Ubuntu base, with unity removed, and with KDE installed.

I LOVE KDE.

The reason why I ask is because I know there are a lot of them, but which one is mostly used by the peeps on OCUK.

xbenjiiman · 22 Dec 2014 at 14:15

Using Budgie on Arch.

Tom B · 22 Dec 2014 at 15:10

KDE

I've tried the others but none is as customisable or easy to use.

Number_25 · 22 Dec 2014 at 15:28

Unity because I hate myself.

SKILL · 22 Dec 2014 at 15:43

I moved to Linux Mint a while back when 10.04 lost LTS (last Ubuntu with a decent WM, RIP

) and liking Cinnamon, had a few stability issues back on Mint 15 but on the most recent release it's a nice solid WM, doesn't do anything fancy but that's what I like

mortals · 22 Dec 2014 at 16:04

i3wm

I used to use openbox, tried various others (dwm,awesome,lxde,etc) and ended up with i3wm.
Makes so much difference to productivity.

CEUOTC · 22 Dec 2014 at 21:21

Unity as I am too lazy

Steveocee · 22 Dec 2014 at 21:38

Whatever it is you get with a standard install of Ubuntu. Too lazy to care what it's called or does differently to others and get on with it fine.

Hades · 22 Dec 2014 at 21:50

Cinnamon

stopper · 22 Dec 2014 at 21:58

Steveocee said:
Whatever it is you get with a standard install of Ubuntu. Too lazy to care what it's called or does differently to others and get on with it fine.

Unity.

I'm using Backbox 4, so I just use the xfce desktop it comes with.

Audigex · 23 Dec 2014 at 01:08

Bash, Desktop Environments are for the puny.

And sometimes LXDE - because if I really feel I need a desktop environment, it's about as lightweight as one gets while feeling familiar.

russell664 · 23 Dec 2014 at 12:38

I have used Cinnamon when it was in early stages of development, and quite liked it.

I'm not really fussed about twilight one, because I don't find my desktop slow at all.

Not fond of unity though.

phill1978 · 23 Dec 2014 at 14:11

the latest cinnamon on mint 17.1 is really nice. enough to replaced mate and xfce as a daily driver. the new compositing feature effectively has eliminated all my vsync issues on video playback and full screen gaming. you don’t need to turn on vsync in games or off as the compositor overrides all, but it can be toggled if you need. The other benefit is that there is no mouse lag even with vsync on.

I think any conflict between nvidia+game+compositor has been ironed out as my fps is also very high now on all games.

Markopolo · 24 Dec 2014 at 04:38

Unity and KDE, depending on my mood. unity had grown on me recently...

Sp00n · 24 Dec 2014 at 13:18

XFCE

Woden · 24 Dec 2014 at 13:21

I like xmonad. I like window managers that actually manage my windows.

pete910 · 25 Dec 2014 at 02:45

KDE!!!!!!

(Mageia 4)

Also gave the new Mint(17.1) a spin in a VM, KDE all so. Seems nice, not bad seen as I detest *buntu/based distros. I have to confess at been in the RPM camp in *nix

purplesky · 25 Dec 2014 at 15:01

pete910 said:
KDE!!!!!! (Mageia 4)

Also gave the new Mint(17.1) a spin in a VM, KDE all so. Seems nice, not bad seen as I detest *buntu/based distros. I have to confess at been in the RPM camp in *nix

Yeah, hate *buntu distros. Don't know why, probably because it's common?
I currently use Arch with Cinnamon. Have a few other desk top environments installed and use depending on the type of work I do.

stopper · 25 Dec 2014 at 16:15

Just switched to cinnamon 2.4 for my Backbox4, massive performance increase over xfce for gaming and especially Wine gaming. Even though I hate the UI I will stick with it until xfce catches up.

BTW, whats with the "*buntu"? I can understand why with *nix, but not Ubuntu.

Throrik · 25 Dec 2014 at 21:49

LXDE and will be moving to LXQT when it's a little bit more mature - looks nice and is super lightweight which is the most important for me.