Openbox (Score 1)

I was a gnome earlier, because kde was too buggy on all the machines i had tried it on. Especially on the netbooks at home ( im the computer guy at home :) ), gnome had a definite edge and i actually prefered running gnome classic to UNR when using ubuntu. Gave KDE 4 a shot again when i dual booted freebsd on my netbook. was very impressed at first, but i slowly came to realise its too much of code to do a really simple job. I dont use desktop icons ... i need my desktop to look minimalist but inspiring and give me access to some essential data, i need my window manager to be very efficient at being just that - a window manager - and not take up much memory on my netbooks, at the same time i dont want it to be TWM-esque ... and thats when i started experimenting with e17 and openbox. And openbox is my pick ( the slightly adulterated openbox of crunchbang that is ). I dont agree with the usual criticism of openbox being an experts only desktop environment, ive found it to be far more convenient than gnome and kde by many degrees. Its light and it does the job, its very customisable, and no, you dont have to do that in a text editor, theres gui menu plugins for everything in openbox. and yeah while gnome/kde by default look much better than openbox. i spent the same amount of time and effort turning openbox into my perfect DE as i did turning gnome into my perfect DE. so, thats where im at now and the gnome vs kde thing is no longer something i care much about. i really do feel a better looking default environment is the only thing missing in openbox. crunchbang is a good example of that, although default crunchbang might only appeal to nerds and closet nerds :)