7 Best Desktop Environments For Linux

It's FOSS ^ | 6 January 2019 | Munif Tanjim

[ShadowAce]

Personally, I like my XFCE Desktop:

[ShadowAce]

[taxcontrol]

I use Linux Mint XFCE for my home system, Linux Mint Cinnamon for my two work servers but corporate requires that I use Windows on my work laptop (sigh).

Love Cinnamon

[PIF]

Sticking with OS X 10.68 ...

[bigbob]

CLI

[farming pharmer]

Thank you for your Linux posts. I'm an old Slackware guy, and your posts provide much needed relief from the politics.

Do you post on Linux Questions also?

[SpaceBar]

/bin/sh

[Openurmind]

Very fair and honest review! :)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Cinnamon...oh yeah. I’ve used it since dumping Windoze for Mint and it’s been a dream for the past 5 years.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Those who fail to learn from ~/.bash_history are doomed to repeat it.

[Openurmind]

Same here. I read a very good article about Cinnamon being the best and installed it. I have yet to even feel like needing to go try the others.

[BipolarBob]

I’m using Zorin now but will migrate to Cinnamon if I run into any problems. So far Z does everything I need and quickly. My problem with Windows is it kept getting slower and slower. I never could fond the bogey.

[ShadowAce]

Do you post on Linux Questions also?

No, although I've gone there from time to time trying to find an answer to the problem I'm experiencing at the time.

[ShadowAce]

I use the shell much more often than clicking. I find it to be more efficient and easier.

I use Terminator as my emulator. It is pretty awesome.

[bobcat62]

If the Linux faithful consider Microsoft Windows to be that bad, why do so many of these alternative environments look like they were ripped off from Microsoft?

[ShadowAce]

If the Linux faithful consider Microsoft Windows to be that bad, why do so many of these alternative environments look like they were ripped off from Microsoft?

It's not the look and feel of the environment that is bad--it's the company behind it and the technology under it that is unpleasant.

[freebird5850]

For. Lots to learn.

[farming pharmer]

If the Linux faithful consider Microsoft Windows to be that bad, why do so many of these alternative environments look like they were ripped off from Microsoft?

It's not the look and feel of the environment that is bad--it's the company behind it and the technology under it that is unpleasant.

Didn't Microsoft rip Windows look & feel off of another OS?

[SpaceBar]

Motif on HP/UX looked nothing like MS-Windows in the before times. Any ‘similarity’ is simply the GUI version of parallel evolutionary paths. Eyes for example have been tried different ways and re engineered numerous times in biological history. A desktop with graphical folders in a neat clean layout is a good solid time-tested paradigm, just like having legs is good for locomotion on land.

[butlerweave]

I always go for the xfce