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Do anyone except Elementary OS users use Pantheon? Seem extremely niche. There's other DEs missing too, like Budgie, XMonad etc., but nobody's complaining becau
by nnq 9y ago
Do anyone except Elementary OS users use Pantheon? Seem extremely niche. There's other DEs missing too, like Budgie, XMonad etc., but nobody's complaining because the focus is on the most popular ones.
Anyway, I really hope something like Budgie or Pantheon takes over Gnome though... distro integrators seem to prefer GTK-based DEs almost exclusively nowadays (probably have their reasons), but the flagship GTK DE Gnome 3 is not something you can recommend to anyone doing anything other than "sysadmin + coding" work, and even some of us developers are not that fond of it...
- O_H_E 9y agoIn terms of user base, Pantheon & Budgie may seem to be a joke. But they are being very actively developed, with lots of innovation and creativity.
- diggan 9y agoIt seems to me that "Voted best DE" in the article is more like "Has more users that are willing to vote for their preference" than "Evaluated different DEs based on X criteria and Y seems best" so the DE with the largest user base is equal to the best one, at least as I understand the article. Then I agree with you, tiling managers are probably way more productive and better than every single on of those DE, but it's about the amount of users, not the one with most innovation or creativity.
- zeth___ 9y agoThere's dozens of us!