Which Desktop Environment

[Peter2121]

enlightenment is the best.
i've tried lxde, xfce, gnome and kde but i'm still under enlightenment
light, fast, there are really beautiful themes.
i would like to see the support of this wm "out of the box", anyway it is simple to install.

[srivo]

I really like the Cinnamon desktop from Linux Mint. Not yet on BSD and require Gnome 3.

[zer0sig]

Definitely like XFCE4 - I really like some of the pretty widgets in KDE or Gnome but XFCE I find far lighter and quicker to get down to business. I need to figure out how to migrate the KDE app list over (I've done this before on earlier FreeBSD-based systems but the app I used before is not present and I haven't taken the time to figure it out again yet), but I enjoy XFCE just fine, and unlike KDE it hasn't blown up on me (and I can't decide whether I want to take the time to fix KDE or not - will probably back a lot of this stuff up and reinstall clean, then merge the modified config files, scripts I've written, etc back on top of 9.x if I can - or maybe I'll back up critical stuff, mergemaster to 9.x and save those config files so I can test them and verify that they won't break PC-BSD 9 or FreeBSD 9 whichever I install - likely PC-BSD as this is a notebook - I'm more likely to set up FreeBSD or FreeNAS on a tower for storage).

[mwatkins]

If I want a desktop environment I tend to use XFCE. I've got enough horsepower on my desktop to run anything (16GB RAM, high spec i7) but prefer the lighter environments due to fewer software dependencies making for an easier to maintain system that is also zippy.

When I'm doing a lot of writing (code or otherwise) I tend to use a simple tiling WM; have been using dwm for a number of years now and have no plans to change.

[purgatori]

I voted "other," because I don't really use any desktop environment. For some time now, I've been using tiling wms: scrotwm, awesome, stumpwm, others I can't remember, and now my beloved ratpoison. I suppose that out of the true DEs, I probably like LXDE the most, but I find them all pretty frustrating to use. Whereas Emacs, which behaves in some ways like a DE, I have a great deal of affection for.

[thnewguy]

I found it strange the poll has an entry for GNOME 1.x, but not 3.x and there's no LXDE option. Even more so since LXDE is one of the supported options for PC-BSD.

Right now I'm running KDE, but I find I can switch between the major environments without much trouble. LXDE, KDE, Xfce, GNOME 2... they're all pretty decent. The only environment I find I don't care for these days is GNOME 3.

[Beanpole]

The poll was created in 2008 if you look at the start date. That explains why it is not necessarily reflective of the current situation for DE's in PC-BSD, or even the DE's that are now available.

[Tigersharke]

I would also question the Hz ratings for those desktops but the RAM requirements do not seem far off. The two largest, KDE and GNOME2 would obviously have greater resource requirements than the others. I tend to use KDE or XFCE most, but have also used FVWM and fluxbox.

[sqlpython]

WoW! I am surprised this Necro thread lives...
XFCE...
We should really start another Polll thread.

[AnbuBlack]

Openbox & ratpoison and Xfce4 sometimes.