What it is reallly saying is that the non-tech end users have rejected
Unity. All of the other desktops can be configured to be fullly GUI
operational and can be configured to taste. Even the Gnome 2.33 users
have rejected Unity, sticking with old distros or going to other GTK
based desktops.
Although KDE had some tough times when 4.0 came out, they have done a
great job of tightening it up and now it is less buggy than Windows 7,
although still kind of over engineered.
I heard somewhere that the Metacity people get apoplectic about the lack
of co-operation from Gnome.
Mark Wallace
On Sunday, 19 August, 2012 12:18 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
Today I caught a story about the issues GNOME 3 is facing [1],
including concerns and issues that GNOME developers are not listening
to from users. [Some of the comments to the story are a worthwhile read.]
I followed a few links [2] that eventually led me to find two surveys
done by linuxquestions.org for Desktop Environments [3] and Window
Managers [4] to find the most popular of both for 2011 (voting ended
Feb 9th 2012). I've reordered the list in terms of popularity, and
this is the result:
Desktop Environments
--------------------
KDE 207 33.01%
Xfce 173 27.59%
Gnome Shell 120 19.14%
LXDE 44 7.02%
Unity 29 4.63%
MATE 21 3.35%
Cinnamon 16 2.55%
Trinity-DE 7 1.12%
Razor-qt 7 1.12%
rox 3 0.48%
-------------------------------
Total: 627 votes
Window Managers
---------------
Openbox 73 15.90%
Compiz 72 15.69%
Fluxbox 62 13.51%
KWin 57 12.42%
xfwm4 47 10.24%
Enlightenment 43 9.37%
FVWM 16 3.49%
MetaCity 15 3.27%
IceWM 11 2.40%
Mutter 11 2.40%
awesome 10 2.18%
xmonad 9 1.96%
dwm 8 1.74%
Window Maker 7 1.53%
i3 6 1.31%
Ratpoison 5 1.09%
JWM 5 1.09%
Sawfish 2 0.44%
Marco 0 0%
--------------------------------
Total: 459 votes
What is notable is that in the survey for 2010 (the year before) for
Desktop Environments [5], Gnome had 45% of the vote, KDE was the same
at 33%, and Xfce was at ~15%.
[1]
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/08/18/2047203/gnome-possible-recovery-strategies
[2]
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-3-4-to-be-a-total-user-experience-design-failure/11127
[5]
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2011-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-95/desktop-environment-of-the-year-919888/page6.html
[4]
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2011-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-95/window-manager-of-the-year-919891/page5.html
[5]
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2010-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-93/desktop-environment-of-the-year-855913/
-- Chris
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