Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 2nd Jun 2005 00:17 UTC
It's been a few years since we ran such a poll. Let's see what most people prefer these days.
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I don't use a DE - I see no reason to waste system resources on something like that. KDE is good as far as customizability goes, but Gnome is a little faster. I don't really like either, though, because of their complexity - they tend to be more buggy, and I don't need a fancy start menu or anything. I just need to have virtual desktops, keyboard shortcuts for window resizing/movement, and a shortcut to launch rxvt. I use Torsmo and root-tail for system monitoring in BadWM. Other than that, just give me rxvt and I'm happy.
). Hoping to have a good beta in the next couple of weeks 
As far as WMs go, on my desktop machine I'm currently using Ion2. Great tiling WM, fast, and "decent" keyboard input (a bit awkward at first). On my laptop I use BadWM.
However, I'm currently coding my own minimalistic WM, based off of TinyWM. It'll be similar to BadWM, only more minimalistic (yes, you can get even more minimalistic