LQ 2011 annual poll

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all
> The latest LQ poll has just closed and the DE results are quite
> interesting. After maintaining a steady ~11% of voter preferences for
> the past three years (2008-2010), this year (2011) Xfce polls a
> respectable 27%, in front of Gnome (Shell, Unity, MATE) and slightly
> behind KDE. [1]
>
> KDE             33.01%
> Xfce            27.59%
> Gnome Shell     19.14%
> LXDE            7.02%
> Unity           4.63%
> MATE            3.35%
>
> Additionally, Thunar takes a decent 16%. [2]
> Nautilus                24.43%
> Dolphin                 24.63%
> Thunar          16.70%
>
> I take these results as a crude estimation of the effect of the Gnome
> 3 release on Xfce adoption. Regards
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2011-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-95/desktop-environment-of-the-year-919888/
> [2] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2011-linuxquestions-org-members-choice-awards-95/file-manager-of-the-year-919913/
>
> --
Liviu, that's a terrific post. And your analysis is completely
correct, at least for my case. I left Ubuntu because of Unity Desktop,
I left Debian Gnome because of the Gnome 3 shell.

For the most part, the XFCE experience has been pleasant.  Still, a
few things are inconvenient, but it is orders of magnitude better than
Gnome 3 or Unity!

Thanks to the XFCE team.

pj

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Paul E. Johnson
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