What Does Your Desktop Look Like?

"After my fourth desktop installation in as many days, I suddenly realized a couple of things. One: I like trying out new distributions, and two: I noted how uncluttered my preferred interface is. See below.

"Driven by an urge to move out of my old, stale (to me, anyhow: I've been using KDE for years) KDE desktop environment, I went on an install binge, successively slapping Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 (UNE), plain ol' Ubuntu 10.04, and Linux Mint 9 onto unsuspecting hardware that I had laying around. Yes, I know these are all Debian-based distros. I've served my RPM time with Mandrake/Mandriva, RHEL, CENTOS, and Fedora. It's Debian-based distros for me from now on, if I have a choice.

"The install sequence went something like this:"

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