Choosing the working environment for your Laptop or Desktop

[thenktor]

1. KDE 4 (on my laptop): because has everything i want of a modern desktop for Linux.

IMHO if you want to show your laptop with Linux to non Linux users, it has to run KDE4. In my experience it has by far the biggest "wow" effect.

One word on XFCE: I've used it for a long time in the past. That was the time Slackware did not ship Gnome anymore, KDE4 was in development and really slow and buggy, KDE3 got boring for a long time KDE3 user like me and all window managers seemed to be not the right thing for longer use. Nowadays XFCE seems to be a bit lost between lightness and functionality for me, that's why I'm using mainly Openbox and KDE4 now. I know, I'm strange

[thenktor]

BTW: I just found this new Qt based desktop environment: http://razor-qt.org/

[mimosa]

Available from Sourcery / slapt-src. See this thread:

http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic. ... zor#p19057

I tried it (on slow hardware) and found it to be rather sluggish and not as elegant as some - though maybe a little configuration would improve that.

[Quoth]

[...] I'm using mainly Openbox and KDE4 now. I know, I'm strange

Don't think so.
I am using the same config.
But the other way round.
Openbox on the notebook und KDE4 on my desktop.

I am also using i3 and going to try herbstluft.


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[Kerd]

I use FluxBox on my 3pc (one desktop, one notebook and one netbook).
I use it because it is light, fast, configurable and very simple.
I love it because it has everything I need, no more things.

[laplume]

Currently using xfce on both Laptops, but Fluxbox will be probably the next candidate (but wife and sons have got accustomed to xfce so they won't let it go easily ...).

Regards,
Antonio