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It's never too late...

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I'm a fan of Ubuntu Unity and compiz, but everyone is going to yell at me. :(

I rather like Unity (12.04 LTS edition) on a 1080p monitor. I find it difficult on a smaller screen (e.g. 1280/768) so I use Ubuntustudio 13.04 which comes with XFCE4 in a rather nice implementation on my thinkpad.

I'm sitting out 13.04 Unity because of the LibreOffice menu highlighting and shortcut bugs.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/7...

I used to run GNOME on my workstations and XCFE on my first netbook (Asus Eee 701) before switching everything over to openbox... the latter has gotten me so used to right-click-for-everything that using GNOME or Windows requires a minute of concerted effort to remember how most of the rest of the world does things.

[edit: However, I still use Nautilus, and thanks to the article this thread discusses I'll likely now have to switch that out... oh well. I was switching from barebones Ubuntu to Debian anyway thanks to Canonical's growing nuttery.]

I think you mean http://mate-desktop.org/

Not exactly, given that Mate is not packaged with Debian.

But yes, if your distribution ships it, then it's a good choice.

No, you're both adding too much bloat:

http://dwm.suckless.org/

In all seriousness, I find it much nicer to use a lightweight WM and install/configure exactly what I need, than have something generic that I don't understand as well (i.e., "desktop environment").

Actually, I've been using Xmonad+Gnome for almost a year now and am super happy with it.

If you're willing to leave the false abstraction of stackable "windows" behind in the quest for maximum productivity, I suggest you give it a shot.

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