I use Mate. I always liked Gnome 2 and I simply can’t get used to the workflow of either Gnome 3 or Unity. I always found KDE to be cumbersome. Mate is just a little prettier than XFCE, which just makes me happy for some reason.
I’m using Gnome on Fedora. It took getting used too. But I’m mostly into cranking out work rather than desktop features, so as long as I can work I don’t care.
Thanks for posting this. All the info in one place.
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The Unity desktop is precisely the reason I use Mint instead of Ubuntu on my Linux box.. ;-)
Unfortunately, the laptop I rebrained with Linux doesn’t have the graphics capacity to run Cinnamon, so it has Mint with the Mate face (as being a bit less taxing on the graphics processor.)
I too like xfce,have been thinking about lxqt for a
test.Seems they have an update.
As long as I don`t have to use systemd.Tried it
on a Gentoo install and it was a mess.Init is so
much simpler to me.
fvwm for me. Learned a little of what was “behind the scenes” when fvwm was the RedHat window manager, oh, late 1990’s. After investing hours in customization, just stuck with it.
I’ve been using KDE since it took over from HP’s CDE. I guess that makes me an old timer. :O. My distro of choice is Netrunner.
LIKE
I think a new LTS version of xubuntu is due soon
What’s the best distro to run virtual machines? Mainly for development and not production.
Gnome for me. Gnome on Fedora at home while at work where I’m forced to use Ubuntu it’s Gnome on Ubuntu. I don’t ask that much of my DE - a few launchers in the panel and a way to navigate the virtual desktops and a few tweaks like having time date and weather on the upper bar and the rest is just the apps themselves. Which more often than not is a terminal window or multiple of them.