Best environment for linux

[Stiganator]

What are the pros and cons of these, do they all feature alpha tranparency etc? What makes one better?

 

[Infohawk]

There is a somewhat similar discussion in this forum right now.

The consensus is that it is a matter of taste. There is no reason you shouldn't try both of them out.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Old.

 

[groovin]

matter of taste and also the circustances of your hardware. i have some older pII and PIII class laptops that cant handle KDE and Gnome, but XFCE and Fluxbox work well... and out of those two, based upon my usage habits, fluxbox worked out to be the better one.

 

[jspsh]

fluxbox and blackbox are the best for an older computer with around 128 MB of RAM

 

[Abix]

They all suck. Ill take my CLI over any desktop environment every day of the week.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Abix
They all suck. Ill take my CLI over any desktop environment every day of the week.

You'd like Ratpoison then.

look it up, if you've ever used "screen", it's very similar, except that it's for X.

My current favorites are "ratpoison" and "gnome 2.8". It's very weird, I use one for a while, get tired of it, then go to the other extreme.

Personally I am hoping that enlightenment 17 will provide the perfect balance, but that won't be usable for another year or two.

 

[netman w00t]

I use KDE 3.2 primarily, but it can be a real memory whore sometimes, so it's nice to switch back to Blackbox every once in a while.

And yes, nothing will ever beat a text console with splitvt and screen, but this is about graphical environments.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: netman w00t
I use KDE 3.2 primarily, but it can be a real memory whore sometimes, so it's nice to switch back to Blackbox every once in a while.

And yes, nothing will ever beat a text console with splitvt and screen, but this is about graphical environments.

Try watching Girls Gone Wild Volume 302 on a text only console.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: netman w00t
I use KDE 3.2 primarily, but it can be a real memory whore sometimes, so it's nice to switch back to Blackbox every once in a while.

And yes, nothing will ever beat a text console with splitvt and screen, but this is about graphical environments.

Try watching Girls Gone Wild Volume 302 on a text only console.

That sort of thing makes me go caca

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: drag

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: netman w00t
I use KDE 3.2 primarily, but it can be a real memory whore sometimes, so it's nice to switch back to Blackbox every once in a while.

And yes, nothing will ever beat a text console with splitvt and screen, but this is about graphical environments.

Try watching Girls Gone Wild Volume 302 on a text only console.

That sort of thing makes me go caca

That would be scary... What ASCII character does a nipple translate to?