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What Linux desktop do you use currently?

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Onyarian:
TC+openbox+bmpanel in my PC-desktop and my 2 notebooks.  :D :D
(in the PC desktop there is SUSE too)

netnomad:
mc+fluxbox(some very handy and sophisticated init-, startup and key-configurations)
+wbar+ipager+wmdocks(as slitlists)
on top of a lean configuration on a multiboot-stick used as an universal tool
for different netbooks, notebooks, desktops and raid-severs
together with partedmagic, liberte-liveusb, finnix, slitaz, porteus
and some boot-, hardware- and filessystem-tools...

this tinycore environment is my main os for private use.

at work i use lean, stable and secure debian configurations on different platforms
with a lean and clean xfce4-configuration for the desktops,
sometimes completed with some virtualized operation systems.

TinyCoreFltk:
i use enlightment to all my installations ( one in a crappy laptop, 2 in my desktop, and one virtualbox). i tried to "convert" the installation of the laptop to something like chromeOS (only the vital hardware support and chromium), adding chromium to x.d. and removing flwm-topside, to disable the titlebar (and make the browser look more like "kiosk" style).

but when i removed flwm-topside from onboot.lst and rebooted, all menus were gone (even chromium's native menus) and an X replaced the mouse pointer. after all this mess, i had a nice chromium wallpaper ;D :P (bleh!...) and no way to restart or shutdown the damn thing, except commandline and vim to restore onboot.lst, to get rid of the "wallpaper" ;D :P

Lee:
It seems to me that some people draw a distinction between a working environment and a "desktop" and some do not.

I, perhaps just through lack of a full understanding of the terms, fall in to the "some do not" category.

I load core with Xorg-7.5, Xlibs, Xprogs, jwm and wbar.  I remove everything except "terminal" from wbar, then onboot load a file manager (emelfm2), a web browser (Minefield), an ftp client (Filezilla), an email client (sylpheed), and a music player (vlc) as wbar apps and a bunch of "little stuff" that doesn't show up in wbar... flpicsee, flume, xtrlock, xpdf, xonclock, conky_plus, sgmixer.

I don't use "ondemand" but I keep some of the heavyweights around for the rare occasion when I need them - gimp2, libreoffic - which I just tce-load as needed.

And "utility stuff" - ntfs3g, sane-backends, gtm5 (still), lame, asunder.

I guess that's not a highly integrated "desktop" like KDE or Gnome, but it is my working desktop.

Or is the question more like "what linux desktop distribution do you use?"   Core is the only "distribution" I regularly use on desktop systems.

So what do we mean when we ask "What Linux desktop do you use currently?"

I don't want to sound like I'm ranting about terminology - but it makes me uncomfortable when I suspect I'm not using the terminology the way everyone else is.  :)

In addition to "What constitutes a desktop?", let me also ask "What constitutes a distribution?" since I've seen Core referred to as a "toolkit" as distinct from a "distribution".

roberts:
I think most would expect a distribution to be a turnkey experience, even the mini and micro distributions.
Core does not offer a turnkey experience. Core does offer extreme flexibility.
I am delighted when I read Lee's post of his Core setup. It validates Core's philosophy.

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