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Distribution: antiX using herbstluftwm, fluxbox, IceWM and jwm.
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I'm still interested in feedback on this suggestion.
--jeremy
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3. Remove the desktop environment window managers from the Window Manager of the Year
ie do not include Compiz KWin Marco Muffin Mutter since they are not stand alone wms or nobody actually uses them as such unlike all the other in the poll.
Pity nobody has followed up on this.
Last edited by anticapitalista; 12-28-2015 at 05:36 PM.
I also think the polls a bit skewed between older and newer gear.
Lumping older gear apps in with newer gear seems not fair.
Especially when votes are done by new users just learning.
So yeah,
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1. Split the Desktop Distribution of the Year into 2
a) if you have 1GB RAM or more
b) less than 1 GB RAM
2. New category: Best live distro (actually running live)
3. Remove the desktop environment window managers from the Window Manager of the Year
ie do not include Compiz KWin Marco Muffin Mutter since they are not stand alone wms or nobody actually uses them as such unlike all the other in the poll.
I can agree with that since I answer questions like this all the time on poor folks gear that
is not the latest and greatest.
A couple of things. First, the configuration management tools class isn't very clear what you're talking about. Vagrant's presence was what really explained it for me. Secondly, I agree that DE WMs could be removed from the list. It also seems Firefox, Iceweasel, and Seamonkey could be combined, being the same family of browsers (more like triplets). Other than that, it looks fine.
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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A couple of things. First, the configuration management tools class isn't very clear what you're talking about. Vagrant's presence was what really explained it for me.
Vagrant themselves and Wikipedia both describe the tool as an "Open Source configuration management tool", which is why it was included. As it actually calls out to chef/puppet/whatever, I will likely remove it.
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Secondly, I agree that DE WMs could be removed from the list.
Thanks for the feedback.
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It also seems Firefox, Iceweasel, and Seamonkey could be combined, being the same family of browsers (more like triplets). Other than that, it looks fine.
We plan to keep these as separate options at this time.
Compiz, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and xfwm4 are the difference. While popular and quality projects, I'd agree that most people do not run these as standalone window managers and it could be interesting to see what the results would look like without them.
Thanks, Jeremy. I guess if that's what Vagrant calls itself, then I can understand. I have no plans to vote in that category anyway, it was just confusing. As for WMs, xfwm4 would be a DE WM, I think. And as for the browsers, I only mentioned it because I really like Firefox, but use Iceweasel because of Debian, so I don't really know which one to choose. Hope I didn't sound like I was telling you to do anything, either.
Just a Hall Monitor observation. Enlightenment sits on top of Open Box and is a Desktop Environment.
Now I feel all greasy and dirty. Ewwwww.
I don't know where you got that information from, but it is definitely wrong. Enlightenment is a window manager on its own and is not sitting on top of OpenBox. In fact, Enlightenment is 6 years older than Openbox.
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