Hi. Since i'm pretty interested in desktop decoration and all that stuff, what DE do you guys suggest? My actual distro is Ubuntu, but i don't mind adding PPAs.
If you're currently using Ubuntu, I would actually suggest either staying with Unity, or, if you can take it, switch to MATE or XFCE. My preference is in KDE, but it is my experience that it only works great in distributions such as Sabayon or Gentoo.
I'm an Arch user myself, and I'm using KDE, but it's not exaclty super-fast or light on the resources. KDE has always been a resource hog, but 7-800MB when idle is too much for me, although people seem to be getting around 450MB on Sabayon 9.
But yeah, I'm using KDE, and I recommend MATE if you're intro traditional old-school-ish GNOME environments, and if you're looking for something equally complete, then I'd say go with KDE. XFCE is out there too, but it's just not quite there yet.
[editline]29th June 2012[/editline]
Oh, and before a lot of you guys start suggesting openbox or awesome; they're not DEs, they're window managers.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;36540886]If you're currently using Ubuntu, I would actually suggest either staying with Unity, or, if you can take it, switch to MATE or XFCE. My preference is in KDE, but it is my experience that it only works great in distributions such as Sabayon or Gentoo.
I'm an Arch user myself, and I'm using KDE, but it's not exaclty super-fast or light on the resources. KDE has always been a resource hog, but 7-800MB when idle is too much for me, although people seem to be getting around 450MB on Sabayon 9.
But yeah, I'm using KDE, and I recommend MATE if you're intro traditional old-school-ish GNOME environments, and if you're looking for something equally complete, then I'd say go with KDE. XFCE is out there too, but it's just not quite there yet.
[editline]29th June 2012[/editline]
Oh, and before a lot of you guys start suggesting openbox or awesome; they're not DEs, they're window managers.[/QUOTE]
I don't really mind resources. I'm on a netbook, but i never had problems with sluggish distros. I tested xfce, lmde, kde and unity. The one that i kinda like, but not fully is gnome "classic" or just MATE. But i'm looking for one that looks good (i'm not saying that gnome classic and others doesn't look good) and that is comfy to use. Thanks for the fast response BTW.
I use Xfce on my desktop and i3 on my netbook.
Wine, for the most part. Tho i try to avoid using windows programs on my machine, and find linux compatible stuff instead.
but wine is good. Else try out the Xfce
[QUOTE=Jookia;36541939]I use Xfce on my desktop and i3 on my netbook.[/QUOTE]
I gave a try again to xfce, customized it a bit and found an awesome DE. But the thing that gives me a itch is how bottom panel can't dogde windows. Has anyone got a solution for that?
[QUOTE=sublbc;36542369]Wine, for the most part.[/QUOTE]
Wine is not a desktop environment.
<3 Xfce
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;36540886]If you're currently using Ubuntu, I would actually suggest either staying with Unity, or, if you can take it, switch to MATE or XFCE. My preference is in KDE, but it is my experience that it only works great in distributions such as Sabayon or Gentoo.
I'm an Arch user myself, and I'm using KDE, but it's not exaclty super-fast or light on the resources. KDE has always been a resource hog, but 7-800MB when idle is too much for me, although people seem to be getting around 450MB on Sabayon 9.
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I can't speak for Sabayon, but on Gentoo, I get about 430MB when idle.
XFCE, or openbox with idesk and mate-panel.
I prefer lxde, but I don't require much from a DE other than speed and simplicity
GNOME 2/MATE
This one is a very sleek and efficient DE.
[QUOTE=Foxconn;36555314]GNOME 2/MATE
This one is a very sleek and efficient DE.[/QUOTE]
And always has been. I've been using KDE for about a week now, and coming back to MATE i must say I don't miss it. I mean, sure, KDE has some GREAT aspects about it, and if I could get it's RAM usage down to 50% of it's current on idle, I might consider it again, but there's just something about MATE.
The low RAM usage, the modular design, the complete Metacity/GTK+/Compiz/Emerald/Whatever experience is amazing. I mean just the fact that you can replace it is amazing in itself, and would never work with, say, openbox, XFCE or KDE. At least it didn't when I tried.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;36555507]And always has been. I've been using KDE for about a week now, and coming back to MATE i must say I don't miss it. I mean, sure, KDE has some GREAT aspects about it, and if I could get it's RAM usage down to 50% of it's current on idle, I might consider it again, but there's just something about MATE.
The low RAM usage, the modular design, the complete Metacity/GTK+/Compiz/Emerald/Whatever experience is amazing. I mean just the fact that you can replace it is amazing in itself, and would never work with, say, openbox, XFCE or KDE. At least it didn't when I tried.[/QUOTE]
The thing i find somewhat wrong in mate, is that desktop effects aren't activated by default, and you can't activate them in "Appareance" menu as original gnome 2. And as i use a lot docky, desktop effects are required. I switched back to gnome classic till i find the option to change it. D:
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;36555781]The thing i find somewhat wrong in mate, is that desktop effects aren't activated by default, and you can't activate them in "Appareance" menu as original gnome 2. And as i use a lot docky, desktop effects are required. I switched back to gnome classic till i find the option to change it. D:[/QUOTE]
There's no option for that anymore I'm afraid.
awesome, if you are willing to customize it a lot.
Or openbox.
LXDE is my personal favourite but really you should try all the common ones and see what you like.
[QUOTE=neos300;36556856]awesome, if you are willing to customize it a lot.
Or openbox.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;36540886]
Oh, and before a lot of you guys start suggesting openbox or awesome; they're not DEs, they're window managers.[/QUOTE]
You wrote that on purpose, didn't you?
Well, i don't see a big difference between DE's and Window managers, i should have cleared that out.
XFCE 4.10, or Cinnamon 1.4, they are both amazing experiences.
If you're in the mood for something new, try a tiling one like Xmonad - although configuration in Haskell is either a gift from the gods, or a curse.
awesome all the way.
XFCE.
Have a pic of my setup:
[t]http://i47.tinypic.com/2j1vkwo.png[/t]
Gnome 3 has some cool stuff, but overall it's pretty bad.
It's neat to try out for an hour then never touch again.
I like KDE, but there some stuff in terms of look and design they could steal from Gnome 3.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;36566102]Gnome 3 has some cool stuff, but overall it's pretty bad.
It's neat to try out for an hour then never touch again.
I like KDE, but there some stuff in terms of look and design they could steal from Gnome 3.[/QUOTE]
How can you say that, KDE is bloated.
Yea it's neat, it even remind me of a better Windows, but overall things just went terrible with it.
Opinions, I will never touch it again.
I have 8gb of RAM, and I get nowhere close to hitting that.
Yeah maybe if you only have 512mb it might be bloated, but most people are past that.
I'm around xfce or gnome classic with docky...
Choices...
Edit:
Already chosen. Sorry XFCE, your lack of panel pulseaudio manager and my terrible laziness made this choice.
lolpic:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/SnOhp.png[/IMG]
I would suggest lxde.
[QUOTE=Moofy;36566963]How can you say that, KDE is bloated.
Yea it's neat, it even remind me of a better Windows, but overall things just went terrible with it.
Opinions, I will never touch it again.[/QUOTE]
In Arch and Gentoo, you can install a minimal KDE install which includes just the base packages, so you won't get the bloat of packages you won't use. The packages are kdebase, kde-l10n-yourlanguagehere and phonon-vlc for Arch and kdebase-startkde for Gentoo.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;36568597]I have 8gb of RAM, and I get nowhere close to hitting that.
Yeah maybe if you only have 512mb it might be bloated, but most people are past that.[/QUOTE]
Even if I had that much, I'd still call 700MB on idle for 'bloat'.
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