Lots of talk and comments about our recent feature article “The Definitive Desktop Environment Comparison” recently (new OSNews comment # record). But what do the readers of this site think? Which is your favorite DE? Update: The poll is down.Note: Sorry guys, I am taking the poll down. Someone cheated (disabled cookies?) and voted for KDE about 45 times in a matter of 2-3 minutes (while the overall rate of the poll was a few votes per minute). That’s not fair and it does more bad to your favorite project than good.
Here are the results until the moment I deleted the (cheated) poll. KDE was still in the lead at that point, but not by much.
I got this suggestion…
We can add a image generator on the poll page that display a random number. Associate this with the session/cookie, and when the user need to submit the poll, he will need to provide this number that generated. In this way, we can at least be certain that is a real browser (with real person) submit the poll.
We can not stop the same person to poll from multiple machines or browsers, but at least the poll will be more accurate…
What do you all think?
KDE is the best, I like the Bluecurve look that RH did though Keramik is UUUUUUUGLY. Right now under SuSE Professional 8.1 I use the QNK Flat style with the Flatcurve Window decoration from KDE-Look and I made my own Bluecurve theme for it, which I am hoping to get onto KDE-Look in the next few days
How about only allowing one-vote per MAC address?
I like certain elements of the OS X interface, Drop shadows are nice, Dialog Sheets are really nice. I think though that OS X interface is slow, the whole aqua theme is ugly and that it should be changed. I also hate the Dock, I hate that it gets smaller and Smaller and Smaller, But I am an Icon person I like lots and lots of Icons on my desktop to me its easier to manuever than to take a magnifying glass to find out whats in my Dock. I have always hated the Apple menu. It pleased me in the public beta when they got rid of it. But I hate they brought it back. And the OS X desktop needs vrtual desktops, I have no idea whats wrong with MS or Apple do they have something against virtual desktops? Like I said there are several more reasons why I dislike the OS X desktop if I was to write them all down it would take up three pages.
Why everytime we have a poll someone has to cheat? The point of the poll is not to decide which choice is the best, but to get a look at the views of everyone who takes the poll. Whoever is doing this should realise that what they are doing is childish(hey im a teen, and I think this is immature) and is taking away from the other OSNews denizens.
I found it bewildering that Apple did not implement something as basic as virtual desktops. My only guess is that their idea is having two Cinema displays side by side
The file viewing options are also limited to three types. The speed of MacOSX depends quite a bit on the processing power you have, if you have duals then even better. It is easily the most graphic intensive OS out there. This is frustating given that XP, KDE and Gnome perform fine on sub-GHZ PCs. MacOSX works best on duals in my experience.
I also use XP and fine it easier to use than MacOSX for the novice user and also to people familiar to classic MacOS. I really don’t like the default color schemes. XP is nothing to write home about but it is consistant, fast, familiar and easy to use for most people, just not my preference.
I’ll be trying out KDE on RedHat next week.
even with all the extra votes taken away they still
won. wonderful.
hi eugenia
and i have a question, why didnt u set it up so that people
could vote only once. i have done this at other places.
hmmm.
jsut getting into the various DE’s into linux (through x11 by apple) and wondering what virtual desktops are? also maybe it’s due to that i have not used them much, but both KDE and GNOME look and feel more like windoze to me than the mac (been user since finder 6 days). . .though i must admit kde looks better than GNOME in my few times to start them up.
my vote would have been mac os x. don’t like windows and don’t have enough experience with GNOME/KDE to say and my computer wouldn’t run Be when it was popular. just my $0.002 smile
“The speed of MacOSX depends quite a bit on the processing power you have, if you have duals then even better. It is easily the most graphic intensive OS out there. This is frustating given that XP, KDE and Gnome perform fine on sub-GHZ PCs. MacOSX works best on duals in my experience. ”
i must be doing something wrong then. . .i’m running on a single 233 g3 (beige) mac os 10.2.1. and runs fine on my dad’s 550 (?) single g4. . . .i’ve heard several people have issues with os x speed but have yet to have that problem myself.
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just what is wrong with the apple menu? i realize it is a personal thing, but i like having access to the items provided there. easy, convenient and makes sense to me.
and wondered if it was available or said would be cool if was available. it is open sourced. . .check out http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/rendezvous/ for info. . .hope that helps and was accurate and on target with someone’s desired knowledge. smile
I say that you should reopen the polls and let everyone cheat as much as they want. Unless you get some fanatic staying up all night, the poll should be acurate. 🙂
“Eugenia is a little like Galileo” …and alot like Ed
Rooney in “Ferris Buellars Day Off”
How many times have I seen the same poll on this site, whether it be for OS or DE or whatever, and some smacktard ruins everyone’s fun. Then the familiar “Boo hoo…nobody plays fair I’m taking the poll down”. Whoa, big surprise.
Please, leave this flamebait ALONE. If you want your site to be taken seriously you have to stay away from this stuff.
These forums look bad enough as it is.
I don’t see much point in this pole (which seems to have run several times during the past few months) if you are going to take it down after 5 or 6 people post. Why do it at all?
Anyway, I know WindowMaker is not a DE, but I like it the best. As for DEs, I think Gnome looks the best. I like a lot of the KDE apps, but I personally find the default KDE desktop to be synonymous with “butt ugly”, or “bugly” if you will. I just absolutely hate it.
Gnome is inconsistant and nautilus seems quite unstable, unless I run it on Slackware 9 or Gentoo, but it is easy on the eyes. It’s an environment that you could stare at all day and go home happy. KDE is an environment that sends me on my way feeling angry at the day and everything to do with it.
Anyone who puts faith in the validity of an internet poll is fooling themselves. I mean, look at Slashdot. It’s not like they bitch when someone “cheats” – they admit the poll is useless and just for fun, so who really cares?
This is what they say:
“This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you’re using these numbers to do anything important, you’re insane.”
Deleting the poll is just a stupid and reactionary thing to do, IMO. Just like angrily replying to a troll.
KDE. coupled with a look alike Gtk theme is what I currently use…
The reason for this is simple, KDE simply looks better and its UI is more customizable, however I like many Gtk applications… I find it very silly to argue KDE vs Gnome, especially when you can simply use both…
However, I can only compare KDE + Gnome to XP (and prior versions of Windows, and MacOS (through OSX).
FOR ME, the choice is easy, especially considering Wine curently runs all the Windows Apps I want, and Codeweavers provides me with my needs in the workplace…
The actual User Interface of KDE is by far the best IMO, it looks good, and is customizable in almost every way. I would love for this to be the other way around, Gnome with KDE apps simply because of the GPL license of Gnome, but the UI’s simply don’t compare in my experiance.
Mac OS provides very few usefull apps that I haven’t gotten to run on Debian, it includes NOTHING I can’t currently do with Debian.
I used to love Windows, but its slow, and Microsoft doesn’t seem to care much about its users… in comparison, KDE is – on my machine atleast – faster than Window Maker (KDE 3.1), and the entire environment provides me with everything I have asked of it…
Whether it works for others though, I dunno, Unix as a whole is not for most… but for me, I love it, and will always likely use some version of Unix… whether that means Linux, FreeBSD, or a commercial offering… doesn’t really bother me… I like the philosophy, I like understanding and being able to get at, ALL parts of MY computer…
I prefere KDE to the UI of Windows, which I beleive is the reason ANYONE uses Wine… I could be wrong here, but it seems logical – else they would just use Windows. I love what Wine provides… a way to run all old apps (I have never had problems atleast..), and doesn’t cripple my computer due to ONLY being able to use a GUI for anything usefull…
I understand why people like GUI’s, but I find it cripples my usefulness…
GUI’s have there place… curtain tasks are simply easier with a GUI, but most are not…
KDE Rocks, Mac OS X looks stupid just like Gnome
I keep falling back to Windowmaker as my desktop of choice. The simplicity of the desktop, the easy access to applications, and fully-configurable keyboard shortcuts make for a supremely nice environment.
I keep trying Gnome, KDE, and other environments every few months or so, just to keep up on what’s going on in these environments… but after a week or so I find myself going back to my Windowmaker desktop.
Of course, I don’t have much experience with Mac OSX, and I find Windows XP to be consistently better than either the latest Gnome or KDE builds (which to me just seem to be clones of the windows style desktop anyway). Gnome2 is better than the Windows 2000 desktop, however.
I was also a solid BeOS 4/5 user when it was still somewhat vital. It also agreed with my penchant for minimalism and usability. Save your fluff, I just want something that can get things done, and get it done quickly.
kde. It’s finaly the desktop ‘I’ was waiting for on unices…