BBQ Democrat - Window Manager/DE

[machinebacon]

Please vote here: which DE/WM should be the GUI for the upcoming "Democrat" roast of BBQ? You can (!) pick two; if you choose one/two of the last three options, please kindly elaborate :)

[rhowaldt]

voting a bit out of a lack of experience, but i love Openbox and XFCE is pretty fantastic too, so that's my reasoning.

[gurtid]

i voted Mate/Cinnamon - show mint how to do it properly

[edit] ;)

[machinebacon]

^ & ^^ Oh my, what happened to you people? ;-) (kidding!)

[edit: gurtid, nice to see you again:)]

[dkeg]

guess what I voted for ...

OB + tiler (i3), but I would accept another in place of it (spectrwm). I think that would be just such a kick ass setup. Anyway, that's my vote and I'm sticking to it :)

[Verändert]

Now that Fuduntu is gone- what about gnome2 ? Or with Wayland coming would Hawaii be an option ?

[machinebacon]

^ GNOME2.x would be MATE here :)

[siralucard]

I'd like to see awesome roasted to perfection...and openbox (not lxde) still remains one of my favorites, so that will be my second choice.

[machinebacon]

Just on a side note (before some of you ask: Why another Roast?) -- each and every base application will undergo a poll (terminal emulator, text editor, browser, media player, music player, file manager, even the artwork)

Free as in sex :)

[wuxmedia]

^ you read my mind... weird - i was thinking that question today.

[paolo]

Openbox like in Archbang or E17 :)

[Verändert]

Mate might be like Gnome2. But it isn't good ole Gnome. From the old days when i was young and happy. And when a DE actually did what the user wanted. And not made the user do what the DE wanted. Like 2 years ago. When i started tinkering with Linux, i started with Gnome (well, actually i started with Arch because some smartass told me that it was cool. It made me cry with fruustration. I was used to Apple computers).

[wuxmedia]

^ you don't remember macos -before- the 'X' ?
MacOS 9.2.1 FTW.
BTW when is linux getting 'spring-loaded' folders?
before OS X - macos was innovative.
OK 1.5 bottles of finest french plonk may have abused my opinion XP
arch makes me cry, too 8'(

[machinebacon]

a few days ago I ran Ubuntu 6.06 and to be honest I was very VERY happy to shut the computer down after not being able to connect/setup a D-link wifi adapter with it. seriously, Mate is so so much better :)

[machinebacon]

@paolo: e17 :) successfully forgot about that one :))

[ivanovnegro]

After a bottle of Wine I decided for Mate, hehe. And of course, my alternative goes to Spectrer because now we can have the newest version after the damn freeze.

[apprentice]

been playing alot with razor-qt on siduction and antergos
its growing into something good quite nicely
and some of the apps aren't half bad either
now all it needs is ignorantguru to do spacefm qt

bbrazor anyone?

[wuxmedia]

MATE or i3 then

[machinebacon]

@Ivy: more wine for you, you make good decisions!

@apprentice: yeah why not razorqt :) It was there on Oyster and it worked well, IIRC. Just gotta get their eggwm from somewhere :)

@wuxmedia: Who would have thought?! :D

[Verändert]

Okay, one more vote for Mate and one less for "others" then- i just changed my vote.
You should take a look at Fuduntu though (there are still images around even if the distro is defunct). It uses Gnome2 and functions extremely well.
And i don't cry if i use Arch anymore. Thanks to Manjaro.