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What these articles never mention is a follow-up comment by Torvalds:

"And for all the people wasting everybodys time with "Why don't you use Unity/KDE/xfce/xyz" - I've tried them. They are even worse" https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDp...

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This is also the way I feel. I don't quite like Gnome3 but it seems like the least worst option at the moment for me.

Tiling window managers, fluxbox etc: too much configuration, not sexy enough

Xfce: also doesn't look as slick, bugs

KDE: sluggish

I really like the Expose(?)-feature and really would miss it

Just to chip in on the tiling window managers: i3[1] is a really nice one which doesn't need a lot of configuration. Since switching from Window Maker, which I had been using for 10+ years, it has been the only window manager that didn't make me switch back.

(I tried out Xmonad, Awesome, Stumpwm and some other window managers over the years. Awesome was pretty close to awesome.)

i3 has a couple of issues I like to see resolved but all-in-all I'm very happy with it.

[1] http://i3wm.org/

Try scrotwm[1] - it's an xmonad workalike, but it's written in C instead of Haskell (not so important to me), and it has a config file instead of ... Haskell (quite a bit more important to me).

Also, terrible and hilarious name.

[1] http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html

If it works like xmonad I'm not really interested. I don't like xmonad's approach to tiling wm's (mostly the master / slave window thing).

Regarding XFCE, I don't think Linus cares about slick if he would have been happy with a Gnome2 fork. As for bugs, I have encountered only one tiny bug.

"I want my sane interfaces back. I have yet to meet anybody who likes the unholy mess that is gnome-3." - Linus

Personally I'm sticking with Gnome 2. Simple, predictable, stable...

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