Best Desktop

[nocom]

lxde 

 

[Chronic]

..... go burn in a fire :|

Mun

When you can give me native-like performance of Windows software on a Linux system, you can curse it all you want. Until then, sadly, it is still part of my repertoire.

 

[Mun]

When you can give me native-like performance of Windows software on a Linux system, you can curse it all you want. Until then, sadly, it is still part of my repertoire.

It is called Mac

Mun

 

[Aldryic C'boas]

When you can give me native-like performance of Windows software on a Linux system, you can curse it all you want.

I can't decide whether to take this seriously XD  I almost feel obliged to make a comparison between native-like performance of Windows and a severely restricted jailed shell


I stopped using Windows as a primary OS after being sorely disappointed with Win95. To date, I've given every version of Windows (except 8, which I just can't justify spending the time to dick around with) a try to see if things have improved any. And aside from the severely lacking commandline, any system or GUI that I have to start piling applications on top of just to make small changes or have it behave the way I want it to is a no-go for me.  It's all opinion though - to each their own.

 

[Chronic]

 

[Sajan P]

I've been rocking Unity and actually love it.  It had it's time with it was complete crap, and people hated it.  It's come a long way and is definitely one of the best at the moment.

Of course some people think it's still cool to hate on Unity.

 

[KMyers]

I am personally a huge fan of Gnome 3/Gnome Shell. I have just upgraded from Gnome 3.6 to Gnome 3.8 this morning. 

 

[MannDude]

I am personally a huge fan of Gnome 3/Gnome Shell. I have just upgraded from Gnome 3.6 to Gnome 3.8 this morning. 

Anything noteworthy different from 3.6 to 3.8?

 

[KMyers]

Anything noteworthy different from 3.6 to 3.8?

It is definately not something for every day use, it seems a bit buggy. Gnome 3.8 has not exactly hit the stable branch do this is expected. The newer features are tighter integration with Google Docs and some visual changes

 

[Shados]

I'd also recommend Enlightenment.

It's very much designed with low-memory footprint in mind, as it's basically built to automatically scale to the available resources/tech level, and scale all the way down to cheap smartphone hardware etc. From their website:

"We have run and tested on x86-32, x86-64, Atom, Power-PC, ARM (ARM9, ARM11, Cortex-A8 and more), MIPS, Sparc, and many other architectures. The suggested minimum RAM required for a full Linux system + EFL application is 16MB, but you may be able to get by on 8MB. For full functionality 64MB or more is suggested. As little as a 200Mhz ARM core will provide sufficient processing power (depending on needs)."

 

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