Thanks for the responses everyone. It’s very interesting to see all the different setups people use. Especially the more bare-bones tiling managers – they make my KDE setup seem pedestrian.

And yeah, my wording could have been clearer – Desktop Environment / Window Manager. etc.. You know what I meant though. :)

I like tiling window managers. After trying more than a few of them, I settled on wmii a few years ago because it feels right and is easy to configure. Recently, I switched to i3 and did not regret it.

@ Apostrophe:
Well, OB *is* the Window Manager of LXDE, but it is also a standalone WM in it’s own right. Admittedly, the question should really have been phrased as ‘What is your favourite Desktop Environment OR Window Manager, but meh.
(and I wasn’t aware that BB/FB/Fvwm were used as components of any DE as standard? Sure, you can run Gnome or KDE on them, but it doesn’t happen by default. And no one runs KWin/Metacity/Xfwm without at least a minimal Gnome/KDE/Xfce environment (do they?)

I’ve tried almost all but keep coming back to the simplistic fluxbox. I have all older equipment and fluxbox, FOR ME, flies. ymmv.

KDE lacks nothing I want or need and I’m used to it.

What a muddled-up poll! The question was “What’s your favorite desktop environment?” but some of the listed options are not at all desktop environments. Blackbox, Fluxbox, Openbox, FVWM and others are just stacking window managers that are themselves part of desktop environment packages (e.g. Openbox is the window manager of LXDE).

It’s like asking “What’s your favorite aircraft?” and then offering choices between Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Pratt & Whitney, Tupolev, etc. … it doesn’t make any sense.

Well, I voted for Openbox seeing as that’s what I’m currently on, and it’s probably my favourite stacking WM, but I also like pekwm (which is configured right: no XML!), and am currently playing around with Fvwm.
However, when it comes to tiling my current favourites are i3 and spectrwm (well, technically scrotwm as I’m on Debian Stable), although I’m playing around with ratpoison and larswm.

Cinnamon and E17!

Xmodady, Xmodady. The best tiling wm. My second choice will be Xmonad :D

I’ve had too much break on compositing environments. The last compositing I played with was the GNOME2 native.

I am presently in Xfce, but also will go into LXDE or straight OpenBox.