[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! :)

[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?

[butlerweave]

I always go for the xfce

[PAR35]

I couldn’t live with KDE, and MATE looks like the 1990s are calling. Cinnamon and Gnome look like the best bests. Your XFCE also looks usable.

[TomGuy]

You have to try a few and decide for yourself which one suits you the best.

That is why Linux will likely never be much more than a geek plaything. Most average users don't want to spend time doing trial and error for dozens of distros/desktops.

A few years ago I saw a listing of around 100 distros.

I do have a Linux Mint laptop that I use occasionally, but I still revert to Win7 to do real applications work. I did spend hours going through old Linux books. Mostly, it reminded me of the early days of MS-DOS, as too much still has to take place via terminal.

Even at the rate MS is trying to kill Windows, Linux will have a tough time trying to gain a viable foothold in the world of the average user.

[zeugma]

I am a big fan of KDE. Unfortuately, Mint has pretty abandoned KDE support. Switched to XFCE for my Mint VMs. Desktop will switch too whenever I get around to upgrading the hardware, probably later this year. Don’t feel like changing distros again, (used to run Fedora), so I’ll live with new DE instead.

[the_daug]

does anyone use bsd?

[Still Thinking]

Crap, I didn’t know there WERE 7, let alone 7 best.