Linux Users - What Desktop Environment Do You Use?

[Qyöt27]

As the title says. If you'd like, even post a screenshot.

Personally, I have both Gnome and KDE, although I use Gnome 99% of the time (partly because KDE's menu got screwed up when I tried following an online guide to have them only show their respective menu items, instead of KDE's showing up in Gnome and vice versa). I would like to try others, notably Fluxbox and XPde* (when it's developed enough, anyway), but after what happened before, that probably won't happen for a while.

*I just like the novelty of running a WinXP lookalike, not to mention that the aesthetics are much better than XP's default theme, and much closer to what I think it should have looked like - a more colorful and streamlined version of the Classic theme.

I'll post a screenshot of my desktop later. Although, I do have a picture of the GDM theme I made and use, which I have attached (can't figure out how to get Quit to show up when it runs normally as opposed to in a nested X session, though). Feel free to post those too if you want.

EDIT: Desktop screenshots posted

 

[Mandrake]

CLI is my friend, but these days it seems like I have to reach for the GUI more and more often. This board in a nightmare in lynx, and it still takes forever to load. Fluxbox is my favourite DE, but the new stuff in Enlightenment 17 looks really cool, so I might make the switch if I get ambitios once it's stable.

Nice themes, by the way.

 

[faithseeker]

usually i use windowmaker.

 

[StromRider]

I usually use kde centric distros (pclinuxos, xandros, mepis) but have had ubuntu installed for awhile so I'm familiar with gnome as well.

I've seen enlightenment on the elive livecd and it's certainly beautiful but I don't know how functional it would be for daily use.

I'm playing with a distro now that uses xfce (zenwalk) and that looks promising but I'd have to say I mostly use kde. You can do some beautiful things in 3.5.

 

[Psalms34]

Gnome when I'm not n command line

 

[BohemianChris]

I don't have X installed. I only use command line.

Kind regards,
Chris

 

[tamtam92]

using kde
i use command line too but user friendly interfaces aren't so bad when you have time

 

[Mandrake]

using kde
i use command line too but user friendly interfaces aren't so bad when you have time

But then you can't brag about how super l33t you are........

 

[tamtam92]

But then you can't brag about how super l33t you are........

I don't care... people are already amazed when they see a girl programming and using linux...

The reality is i still have a lot to learn...

by the way... what is 133t?

 

[BohemianChris]

Retarded speak that was popular in the 80s.

 

[Mandrake]

Retarded speak that was popular in the 80s.

Ouch..... Yeah, it's just a joke. l33t (prounounced "leet", like elite) was gamer slang back in the day. Like Pwn3d, its use has become sort of ironic. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[tamtam92]

I'm sorry i'm not aware of english early slang... i'm managing to speak the english that everyone can understand

now back to the thread subject ?

 

[bentwompracing]

I'm using gnome with Suse 10 But it really doesn't matter to me. I wish I could learn comand line? I am not that smart. Hopefully this summer I will be taking a intencive linux class so I hope that will change? -Bent

 

[BohemianChris]

Just download an O'Rielly book or read something at The Linux Documentation Project. Command line is pretty easy. You only need a few commands to do just about everything:

emerge foo (if you have gentoo for portage)
nano foo (replace with favourite text editor)
ls (list)
mv (move)
rm (remove)
rm -rf (remove command to use if it is a folder)
srm (secure remove)
srm -rf (secure remove command to use if it is a folder)
cd (change directory)
scp OPTIONS (secure transfer from a *nix machine to another)
ssh (secure shell -- you should know what that is)
exit (exit your acount)
whoami (find out what user you are)
wget (web get a file)
uptime (how long you've been running)
uname -a (computer specs)
kill -9 (force kill an application -- may be killall instead or kill -9)
ls | less (when you want to go manually through a list)
ping foo.com (you should know what pinging is)
man foo (get the man pages for the foo app)
ntpdate foo.mil (update time to real-time clock)
top (view apps running)

That's really all you need to do basic tasks in your regular user account. Some of the things listed above are root only commands. Some you may never use. It looks daunting, but it's really not.

Kind regards,
Chris

 

[superfly]

leet speak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

i use suse 10 with kde 3.4.2, haven't upgraded to 3.5 yet.

gnome is nice to play with, and then i go back to kde... it just works better for me.

 

[Swart]

I'm in transition at the moment. IMO, KDE has outstripped Gnome in several areas. I prefer to distribute Gnome as it is easy to lock down, but I use KDE.

Distros are my problem. I currently use Fedora but I will probably chaneg soon. FC5 is due for release today, I'll trial it but I think I'll probably switch to SuSe or Kanotix. I intend to give the next release of Kubuntu a go.

 

[BohemianChris]

When are you gonna move to a power user distro? Just curious. ; )

Kind regards,
Chris

 

[Mr.Pious]

But then you can't brag about how super l33t you are........

I'm a sucker for convenience.

 

[Swart]

When are you gonna move to a power user distro? Just curious. ; )

What would you recommend?

 

[Mr.Pious]

Debian or Slackware I would imagine.