Re: [sheflug] KDE vs Gnome... (batten down the hatches, etc etc)

[John M Cooper <john [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 11:14 +0100, Chris J wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry about the question, as I know it's often very subjective. However I 
> can't find any real agnostic comparisons of these two desktops out there. 
> 

I think it's very difficult to be subjective, as most poeple get used to
a desktop environment and work round it quirks. If you just "try" Gnome
or KDE then things feel diffirent from what you are used to and so you
end up with a bias. They both have thier good and bad points but as far
as I know are both recommended over windows ;-)

You may want to check out a couple of other options such as IceWM[1] and
Xfce4[2] these are both simple replacements and will run a bit faster if
you PC is a bit older. IceWM in particular is very like Win9x in style
only it works! There are many more but these are two that I have used
and found to work.

I would advise you to get the newest distribution that you can find as
that will give you the best experiance in any desktop.

And don't forget there is nothing stopping you running some Gnome apps
under KDE and vice versa.

john

A long time and happy Gnome Desktop user!




[1]http://icewm.org/
[2]http://xfce.org/


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