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[wyliecoyoteuk]

I must admit to have almost abandoned KDE
KDE4 was just irritating, evey time I thoughtthat I understood it, something else broke.
I now run Ubuntu, in one form or another, on all of my home PCs.
Desktop (Gnome), Netbook edition (Clutter), Mythbuntu (XFCE).

I still have an OpenSuse VM.
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[budgieboy]

For me it's Gnome. I like its uncluttered feel and as it came with Ubuntu 10.06 I've grown to like its simplicity and it looks different to windoze

[ollie]

[donoreo]

KDE 4 just irritated me too much. I still dislike Gnome and the hand holding that the developers provide, but it is more stable.
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[budgieboy]

[dth]

kde 4.5 for me - love it. also have kde 3.5 installed and i sometimes use that still. but gnome - tried it four or five times, over the years, and didn't like it at all. my worst nightmare was ununtu - gnome with brown colours (uck).

[Nickless-Wirth]

KDE (checking...) version 4.4.5.

Because it can still let the programs use the whole screen - and most of the time I'm using either a single program, or one of several in some parallel work (use one, transfer data to another, work there...).

I did try to use Gnome - and gnomes they are who made it impossible to adapt to my preferences! (NOTE: I am objecting to one boneheaded decision, which made me reject the whole thing (why waste screen on a panel that you only use three percent of the time ?), but since I rejected it, I am ignorant of most of its workings - therefore, what's there may be great, but because of the showstopper, I won't know.)

One thing I am missing, though: In an earlier KDE I could minimize program, middle-click on the desktop, and get a list of desktops, and programs running in them. Then I just chose one, and the system automatically switched to it, and maximized its window.

And why clutter up the desktop with icons ?
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[thomasgc]

Gnome for home, it just works and keeps the family happy.

Fluxbox windows manager for work. It is much faster on my creaky work machine, and is easy to set up all the keybindings for mouse free experience.

I don't use a desktop manager for work, as I get fed up keeping the desktop at home tidy all the time (who needs icons all over the place anyway?)
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For reasons I know I've explained ... interminably ... in other threads

Basically, I like having

1.1) everything under my middle-button, so that it pops up wherever and whenever I click it - I don't wanna have to mouse to a particular point on-screen every time ... It just isn't efficient

1.2) my neuropsychology as unhindered as possible and don't want my body to learn to instinctively look for things in the same place every time, over-riding my brain in doing so

2) No desktop cluter - No taskbars, no wharfs, no docks, etc.
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[chamaecyparis]

Greetings from the East Slope, Cascade Mountains!

At the moment, I'm using Lucid Puppy with IceWM.
Salix64-Xfce is my other distro of choice.

Why? Because I dislike KDE with a passion and Gnome is too heavy.

Okay, I'm a performance freak. XFCE offers, good configurablility and decent quickness. LXDE screams with Mint-9-lxde and PCLXDE! They're the most fun and least configurable of my regular choices.

Best wishes! Happy New Year! Don't forget the haggis!