They still exist! No, really! KDE vs. Gnome vs. XFCE vs. blah-blah-blah
Recent experience of switching among desktop environments proved one little thing to me. Do you all know how easy is to change your desktop background? – Well, switching desktop environment nowadays is the same.
You don’t have to bother on the apps stack packaged with your environment. Libs conflicts – can’t even remember when was the last time I had something like that? Or installing something from source…
You just don’t want to face the fact that most of your daily work is spent in:
- Cross-platform IDE (Eclipse, Anjuta, Netbeams, etc)
- Web Browser (Chrome, Opera, Firerfox)
- Console (Terminator, Konsole, gnome terminal)
What else you might need?
So the desktop environment you’re using is narrowed to that tiny desktop area on the bottom/top of the monitor where you got your running applications. Oh, and the tray with clocks and NetworkManager.
