Comment Re:Less is More! Anyone with me? (Score 1) 818
To those who run *nix desktops and are frustrated by the latest Gnome variants, why aren't you running KDE?
You might as well ask:
To those who program java and are frustrated by the latest Eclipse, why aren't you running Netbeans?
Well I run neither, I use emacs (and vim depending on the situation). I am really just not that into IDEs for programming. Why I am not that into Eclipse is going to roughly translate into why I am not into Netbeans. Compared to emacs/vim, eclipse/netbeans are basically offering the same thing. I like the *nix approach of building a core of tools, and then building out from there. I find eclipse/netbean's big box solutions clunky and too hard to tweak when I need to. (Don't get me wrong I do get envious of junit support in eclipse sometimes.)
Now back to the original question at hand, I use xmonad instead of GNOME, KDE, or Xfce. (I have not recently experimented with anything else.) This is for essentially the same reasons as my preference for text editors over IDEs. Just not that into big desktop solutions when I select a windows manager. "But the features!", I hear the strawmen cry. Do I want floating windows, a start menu, right clicking for more options, a cluttered desktop, file managers, etc? Nope. I am sure a sufficient amount of customization could get all of these to something I could live with, but it is really not the starting point I want. Starting with xmonad and customizing my way to the features I want has worked really well for me.
Less is more!