A survey conducted by the popular site linuxquestion to his users he revealed interesting figures regarding that Desktop Environment they prefer the same.
The results are more than clear. KDE ranks first with the 33.01% of the votes. Xfce is in second place with 27.59% y Gnome Shell in third place with him 19.14%. Then follow LXDE, Unity, MATE, Cinnamon, Trinity y RazorQT they were tied and finally, Rox.
I think the reasons are already known, KDE offers the most complete and powerful Desktop Environment in GNU / LinuxWhile Xfce shelters the great wave of users disenchanted with Gnome Shell which, in turn, is maturing little by little. Unity Well, as we all know, it comes by default in the most used distribution so far and that is why it seems to me, it is positioned in fifth place.
Obviously, this survey is something that should not be taken very seriously, since it only covered a small mass of users, but I am sure that, if something more global was done, the results would not change much.
I think it is the first poll I share ... at least I am part of the user group of the first two. I have been using KDE since very recently and I fell in love with the environment and although I do not use Xfce, however I do use many of its applications with Openbox .
Anyway I can't comment on GnomeShell or Unity since I never used them
Xfce is the best since Gnome 2, without hesitation
Lol few people use unity on that website ehehe. Well, kde is normal, it is the classic and powerful desktop par excellence, xcfe is also very versatile.
Correction: LXDE is in 4th place and Unity is 5th
It's true, thank you very much. Fixed 😀
I use xfce after the failure that unity and gnome shell have been ... and you are right, it is the refuge for those of us who want an environment as close to gnome 2
Slakeware appears as one of the most popular distributions, that's why kde collects so many votes.
Crushing the margin of difference between the second and third place O_O ', between the first and the second is not much difference. Good for KDE and XFCE.
after Unity and gnome shell came out, I started using XFCE and for me it is much better than gnome 2x .. all the things that I could do before I still do now I still have a nice desktop and always fast!
The graph is wrong, first is Xfce then that other hehe.
KDE as always, in the first place, is hands down the best environment 😛
I feel left out, window manager users are a minority. Good for both, but better, hold on iceWM !.
Greetings.
We feel left out. T_T
With so many window managers here they tend to debate a lot just between KDE and XFCE. -___-
Greetings.
Oh oh… don't forget 'dwm' oO
best awesome XD LOOOL
Between dwm and awesome I stick with dwm, which is what I use at the moment, I tried awesome a long time ago and I left it, not because it is bad but because of my little knowledge with lua. xP
Greetings.
They seem to me to be predictable results, seeing how the panorama is today. KDE is a consolidated project, which is committed to the classic desktop, but with a lot of eyecandy and some of its own inventions (activities, for example). XFCE is another great environment, an ideal refuge for lovers of the Gnome 2 style.
The truth is that I wanted to install XFCE one of these days, and so I have the two working side by side. The best thing about Linux is this infinity of options;).
KDE is a good environment .. the truth is I have tried it many times but I really don't know .. it is not my thing !! In terms of effects and covers flow they are spectacular, the good thing is that this can also be installed to Gnome Shell the cover flow 😀 .. for now I'm happy with gnome shell
Urra for KDE and Xfce xD
the only thing that xfce lacks is how beautiful gnome 2 was, visually it gave xfce a thousand turns
xfce in comparison is in my opinion really ugly in some respects
Well, visually I like xfce, [I suppose it depends on the level of customization] but gnome 2.x is also "ugly" just installed or standard.
install xubuntu to test xfce and I have something like this: http://i.imgur.com/0gcKa.png and the truth is I do not see it ugly.
what I did not like [or I have to get used to] is that it shows all the partitions mounted and not mounted on the desktop and for someone who does not like the icons on the desktop it does not work [yes I left 2 icons to get used to it ].
a KDE4 user.
And I swore that Cinnamon would crush the others in a poll like this, or at least that it would beat Unity ... The percentage of Unity and Cinnamon is not bad. Soon they will grow and will be among the likes of linuxers, at the level of the big ones: KDE, Xfce and Gnome.
I really like the result a lot. KDE is for me the best desktop environment I know of.
Good For KDE, but as I see everyone is doing very well, working wonderfully and also has many personalities.
Definitely KDE is the best ... ole for KDE
here a Kubuntu 12.4 user to death
A question elav: That survey between what dates was it carried out? In the site that you put as a link, I see that the comments go from December 21, 2011 to March 09, 2012… is that the voting period or was it opened and closed before those dates?
Well, I tried a change to xfce, but I went back to gnome shell, with the extensions, and from gnome I don't move
It seems to me that a survey is of little use if the data is not compared, in fact this particular survey seems very interesting to me and I will try to be as objective as possible in my conclusions:
KDE This table is shown as the undisputed king of desks, however a comparison with the survey carried out, on that same site, on January 7, 2010 -http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2011-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-95/desktop-environment-of-the-year-919888/- It shows us that it did not have an advance since it fell from 40% to 33%, this probably due to the dispersion caused by the existence of other desk proposals.
GNOME is the big loser. The survey conducted in January 2010 shows a technical tie between GNOME y KDE in the first place. Really a percentage point is nothing considering that every survey should be considered with a +/- 2% in its margin of error. This obvious loss of more than 21 points is due to GNOME3, which meant a notable diaspora towards other desks such as Xfce that from 11% shot up to 27%. Although the fact that LXDE has not advanced more than 3 percentage points.
Unity it is disappointment. How is it possible that a development of more than a year and with a huge media coverage was barely 2 percentage points above another that had not even been made public when the survey began? This demonstrates that Ubuntu it is very popular ... but Unity No.
Cinnamon It is the useless data of the survey and honestly, if judged with rigor, its inclusion takes away the seriousness of the matter: the survey began a day before the official launch of Cinnamon… In its testing phase! How could it be considered in that survey to be voted as desk of the year if it had not even come out and evidently the sampling had already started?
Another fact that caught my attention is that historically it was the survey with the least number of votes since it was started on that site in 2006. This makes it a bit difficult to interpret the absolute numbers and rely a little more on the relative ones, but it is still an exercise interesting.