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LINUX QUESTION - best Window Manager?

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Superwormy

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Looking for the best ( or most used, most prefered, whatever ) window manager or AT LEAST some recomendations on using one.

I'm accustomed to using Windows NT, which has a nice, CLEAN, FAST GUI, I'd be looking to the same in Linux. I DO NOT want somethign that looks like friggin Windows XP teletubbies CRAP.

Suggestions?
 
Fluxbox is clean and fast.
Windowmaker is another good option.
XFCE is nice IMO, basically a free CDE, but if you're a CDE hater, you won't like it.
Icewm is pretty much a Win9x/2K/NT lookalike, with a "start" menu, it just doesn't say start 😉
 
Well personally I love gnome. clean, easy, and affective. I suppose it looks more like "Apple Teletubby Crap" than "Windows Teletubby Crap."

Sawfish/Metacity are both very simple/useable managers, especially to someone initially coming to windows (so I've found at least.)

Enlightenment is probably more your style, I used it for a long time, it's gorgeous and can look just about anyway you'd like, plays nicely enough with KDE or GNOME and by itself. It can be tweaked to death, quite easily making everything exactly where you want it.

Window maker may be your style too, especially if you want something bit lighter on it's resource suckage.

I've never used Fluxbox, but used blackbox fairly extensively, it's quite nice in the "ultra clean, ultra fast, ultra outlandish" niche of window managers, very nice, If you ever used Litestep for windows, you'd probably like this.

GNOME 2 is simply amazing, it's gorgeous fonts and ultra clean design principles blow everything else away (IMHO). Bleeding edge versions of gnome and it's cousin KDE can be compiled rather painlesly with GARNOME

I highly recommend giving GARNOME a shot.
 
With a modern machine, I find GNOME2/Metacity to be classy, easy to use, and quite powerful if you dig into the configuration.
 
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