Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

Ian <gay@sfuu.ca> wrote:

c186282 wrote:
 

Everybody wants something different.
 
Personally, if it can be had, I still use LXDE.
It's just Good Enough without being a ridiculous
drag on things. XFCE is the next best FOR ME.
 
Others want more like the Winders experience, all
the bells & whistles and 'integration'.
 
There's no one-size-fits-all desktop. The great
thing about Linux is that you can CHOOSE.

 
This thread has now been running for several days, and no one has
preferred Gnome. Yet several well-known distributions make Gnome their
default. Why?

Likely because the same distros that default to Gnome are also the ones
that pander to "newly ex winblows users".

And very few of that user base will even be aware of Usenet, much less
know how to post to the same.

So we likely then get a selection bias in that the very fact we are
here posting means we are the "more technical" users (even the ones
posting here claiming they are not that technical).

So none of us here are likely to enjoy the Gnome straitjacket.