I use a minimal Debian install with X and the stumpwm windowmanager. No desktop environment or login manager. Stumpwm basically acts as a placeholder for a terminal with multiple nested screen sessions and a web browser (conkeror). I basically live my life inside Emacs (the non-gui version of course), but must come crawling out once and a while to browse the net, or communicate via irssi (where I have everything: msn, facebook, jabber, irc, etc. through bitlbee). Used to have that inside Emacs too (using erc) but remotely accessing erc from a touch phone was not feasable, so I switched to irssi.
Why I live my life like this? Well, efficiency. I can do just about anything I like with a couple of keystrokes, I don't have to spend time being distracted by fancy graphics and animations, and every single pixel on my screen is used well. No wasting screen real estate on decoration.
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I use a minimal Debian install with X and the stumpwm windowmanager. No desktop environment or login manager. Stumpwm basically acts as a placeholder for a terminal with multiple nested screen sessions and a web browser (conkeror). I basically live my life inside Emacs (the non-gui version of course), but must come crawling out once and a while to browse the net, or communicate via irssi (where I have everything: msn, facebook, jabber, irc, etc. through bitlbee). Used to have that inside Emacs too (using erc) but remotely accessing erc from a touch phone was not feasable, so I switched to irssi.
Why I live my life like this? Well, efficiency. I can do just about anything I like with a couple of keystrokes, I don't have to spend time being distracted by fancy graphics and animations, and every single pixel on my screen is used well. No wasting screen real estate on decoration.