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What is your favorite desktop? (Survey results)

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As we said, we reveal today the results of a survey that has had enough participation, is that the question deserved what is your favorite desktop? As simple as that. And the choice has been the most votes has been, surprise …

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Do you recognize? Well, because it was the first environment desktop GNU / Linux seems to return to hold the throne he lost a few years, if not in use-we know how difficult, if not impossible, that is to quantify that, at least in the opinion. We recall that in 2011 fell short of GNOME 2, the winner then.

But it rained a lot in two years, and as I said the other day, we had never taken so much variety in GNU / Linux, speaking of desktop interfaces. Now KDE is king , it is true, but, how much margin? What has been the overall picture? We have shown in the following image (click to enlarge):

500x500 Poll What is your favorite desktop? (survey results)

I’m not going to evaluate the results, that’s what you are you, but if I would say I have had several surprises along the evolution of voting. The first I have told you already, KDE has won the crown with one important difference, the second has surpassed Cinnamon Xfce , which is well below what is expected, considering the popularity enjoyed by Linux Mint in recent times. I was also surprised to see how MATE beats heading to LXDE , and there is much user out there who likes window managers and “Móntatelo yourself” which I think is great.

votes for “Other” are, as always, difficult to analyze, but with a quick review of the comments you can glimpse how much like Openbox ‘bareback’, while others prefer dwm, icewm … U options complete as Razor-Qt or Pantheon, Gnome with Cairo-Dock … Anyway, as a catch is not bad, really, but it has only been over GNOME Fallback and E17 (the latter , by the way …).

About the survey results, an error margin is safe. Also, in any case have to be taken as absolute truth, of course. However, I do think a sample to take into consideration on how is the courtyard on this issue, even “above”. Regarding the faults that we have had on the development of the survey, we note for the next.

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Tags: Cinnamon, survey, Enlightenment, desktop environment, desktop, GNOME Fallback, GNOME Shell desktop interface, KDE, LXDE, MATE, shell, Unity, XFCE

Amazon Results in Unity, only a first step

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Interesting article sent to us directly Benjamin Kerensa, Community Evangelist on Ubuntu, and yesterday held an exchange of emails with Mark Shuttleworth on the issue of inclusion of results Amazon in the Home Lens of the new Unity Dash 6.6.0.

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A good example of an interesting use of the results of the Dash Amazon: search for books on Ubuntu

As you know, one of the novelties of the new version of Unity is the presentation of results in our generic searches Amazon in the Dash, which is not liked too many users my not-particularly-and convinced me that has provoked suspicions about the privacy and security of those transactions , that Ubuntu could turn into an interesting source of information to Amazon.

Mark Shuttleworth

tried to reassure users stating that privacy is totally not send data on those searches Amazon, as explained one of the developers of that property, and that is expected a secure protocol is integrated into such pursuits soon , but also, as he said, the idea is to offer the full search, which allows us to find not only documents on your computer, but services and products directly from Dash if they so wish.

Benjamin Kerensa

explains in his post that although he believes that the results for the shopping section are interesting, much work remains to be done, but it will be very powerful power make price comparisons of products online shopping directly from the Dash.

course that option is curious, but I still think it should have clarified Shuttleworth why Canonical takes Amazon to provide results, something that has never been clear. If Ubuntu takes a commission, as some readers comentábais in the previous post, perfect after all Canonical is a business and the goal is to make money . But it would be recommended that this decision would admit and explicasen more clearly.

For those who do not wish Amazon results on Dash, the quickest way is uninstall “Shopping Lens ” on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping

Something that will save you from those results if you wish. It is normal for these early confusions occur with so striking a feature, and perhaps there was a little miscommunication by Canonical . Hopefully the best of them, for sure we will see a Dash increasingly powerful and versatile.

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Does it give GNU / Linux all you need? (Survey results)

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Here I bring the survey results the other day, in which you ask “do you give GNU / Linux all you need?”. In fact, the questions were several, all with the same goal: to make a scale of approximately how many you use only Linux , how it complementáis Windows or Mac, or vice versa . Let’s see.

linkey1 ¿ Gives GNU / Linux all you need? (Survey)

Before turning to the topic, a brief personal appreciation. Contrary to what some believe, as an entry with the previous survey, with over 170 comments (so far) shows that can discuss sensitive issues without creating any kind of ‘flame’ . Many of the responses, contrary to what might be considered “politically correct” in a blog as MuyLinux, have been well argued and have been respected. It should be.

Now, let the heart of the matter: gives you GNU / Linux all you need Yes and no.

ENC1 ¿ Gives GNU / Linux all you need? (Survey)

As can be seen in the picture, for many of you, Windows is still essential , for various reasons discussed below. However, a high number uses only GNU / Linux, a very significant (and positive). By contrast, the combination of Linux with other operating systems Windows alternative is rather residual.

ENC2 ¿ Gives GNU / Linux all you need? (Survey)

Interesting question, because although most claimed to utilize a combination of Linux and Windows, when staying with a system for day to day, rampaging Linux . And there is nothing like “distro of each” It should be noted that there was another option, to give room for some other alternative operating system, but has not received a single vote.

enc3 ¿ Gives GNU / Linux all you need? (Survey)

If the answer to the first question was “just GNU / Linux”, ie, hard disk only needs to turn distro, it was important to note what percentage of those users yet resorted to virtualize some other OS, Windows in particular. You see, the most voted option is only Linux, so it’s out there a high number of users 100% Linux users … But Windows is felt in this section, as is felt the fans technological of Linux users, who really like to try new experiences.

enc4 ¿ Gives GNU / Linux all you need? (Survey)

Here is the real crux of the matter. Because, with the advantages by design and philosophy also have GNU / Linux vs. Windows , who used the second of playing the same level, or have available the tools you use at work ? Not to mention the supporting hardware and peripherals (missed by not including this option, it is clear). And there’s not much to argue about it that has not been said a thousand times already.

In short, it was very interesting to see how is the patio. GNU / Linux needs to improve in three ways if you want to aspire to great market: games, business applications and hardware support . At the same time, proves to be a perfectly valid for many types of user, whenever circumstances accompanying a little.

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