KDE or GNOME?

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KDE or GNOME?

Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:12:06 AM #31145 Perm Link

I know I'm leaving out a bunch of window managers, but which of these two do you like better?

I was originally running Gnome but I've since switched back to KDE. I like how you can customize KDE easier.

How about you?

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Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:19:49 PM #31169 Perm Link

Gnome, totally.

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Mon Jan 1, 2007 4:43:15 AM #31201 Perm Link

I currently use KDE, but in the end, I don't care much. KDE has all them killer features and customizability (?), whereas Gnome is somehow "smoother". I also like Xfce when pimped with a well-configured ivman and beryl; I don't run anything without beryl nowadays anyway.

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Mon Jan 1, 2007 8:19:13 AM #31226 Perm Link

In response to free::zombie #31201

I haven't check but does beryl run with something like an i810 chipset? I noticed most require those binary drivers from Nvidia or ATI.

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Mon Jan 1, 2007 2:18:51 PM #31253 Perm Link

i810 supports AIGLX, which means beryl is capable of running. I don't know about the performance though... but it's worth a try

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Tue Jan 2, 2007 9:29:18 AM #31319 Perm Link

I just like the look and feel of KDE a little better. Though, GNOME has made strides in improvements.

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Tue Jan 2, 2007 4:46:08 PM #31362 Perm Link

there is no "look and feel of KDE" since version 3.0 Wink

all customizable...
There isn't even a default look&feel: in a standard installation you are asked some questions before the first log-in. This wizard has been banned from most distros nowadays, but it's present in debian and might still be in Fedora, though I very much doubt it. It was in RH7.3.

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Tue Jan 2, 2007 4:57:19 PM #31363 Perm Link

In response to free::zombie #31362

I saw on on second boot on Kubuntu. That must be a bug since I already setup the way I wanted it to look.

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Tue Jan 2, 2007 7:06:59 PM #31387 Perm Link

I'm using Gnome on Ubuntu. The default theme looks fine for me.

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It used to be...

Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:39:03 PM #32346 Perm Link

In response to Aron Schatz #31145

I really liked GNOME ages ago because it was an embodiment of the community. Like GNU/Linux itself, you would pick and choose on each level what you wanted for GNOME, the windowmanager, the filemanager, the graphical image tool, so forth and so on, but now, it's very organised and is slowly becoming a choked system. All of the graphical eyecandy in vista was stuff being proposed back in the planning stages of GNOME 2, but those with the better of the voting got the simplify this, higgify that, reduce the dependence on these, unify all of those stuff.

There are three developers that read the features of Vista and almost certainly freaked out thinking..."They were reading my S*! THOSE F*ERS!" I love Vista for the security which will probably reduce the number help-desk people needed for anyone location, but the part that ticks me off is that people will actually think MS came up with the graphical features.

Regardless, I think in the long term, I'll be using Fluxbox, gDesklets and Bonobo in the long term...oddly enough, vista has gDesklets and Bonobo too...strange, huh? Wait...they're called something else....

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Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:32:52 AM #32995 Perm Link

Gnome... I just transfered from Xfce. They really stopped attempting to keep things slick. And Edgy 6.10 is so nice. I really haven't messed with the default settings either. Any KDE evangelists out there who have some reasons to convert?

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Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:49:57 AM #32997 Perm Link

In response to cornbread #32995

One word: Customization.

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Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:09:45 AM #32998 Perm Link

I am a relative newbie though. I switched from XP when the WGA program rolled out last year. Xubuntu was recommended and I bit. Would I be able to handle everything? For reference, I am really getting into the command terminal. Nostalgia for dos days and its fun to control everything with itty bitty parameters. My terminal has the package that lets it drop down from the top with F12 ala Quake. I luvs it.

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Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:19:09 AM #34230 Perm Link

I am working in Fedora and I like KDE more than GNOME. May be it has got to do with my liking when I saw KDE for the first time but I feel more comfortable in KDE.

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Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:56:31 AM #34240 Perm Link

Linus recently added some more flammable materials to this war, though I don't know how the patches will work out...