Comments on: Gnome vs. KDE

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:36:16 +0000

Tisma: But why?

By: Tisma

Tisma — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:01:15 +0000

I have been with KDE since 1999

Then came KDE 4.x Â¡ no comment !

I switched to GNOME definitively …. without regret
without any comeback…..

Thanks KDE, and goodbye ……

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:08:55 +0000

I think I”m using twinview for my dual heads. Works pretty well.

By: BruceH

BruceH — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:52:44 +0000

First off, let me say that I do think gnome is fantastic. It has really come a long way since I last used it. In fact, it seems much zippier than KDE does on the same machine. I also like the compiz effects a lot better in gnome.

I’m still using KDE 3.something. KDE4’s compiz effects are much better, though possibly not as nice as Gnome’s.

In hindsight, this would have been better done on my laptop, as adding gnome to an already existing installation proved problematic on my desktop system. I’d rather have done a clean ubuntu install, I think.

When I installed gnome, it overrode my custom xorg.conf file, and no longer wanted to play with my old configuration. So I ended up writing a new one by hand. I use dual monitors. I did have 2 X screens in the old system, but now I’m forced to use nvidia’s twinview setting, which I don’t like as much. But it works, and looks beautiful.

All in all, I’m fairly impressed and will most likely stay with gnome.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:09:15 +0000

Bruce: I’m looking forward to your report!

By: BruceH

BruceH — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:48:06 +0000

I have not run gnome in a couple years, so I can’t comment on it. However, the discussion here did convince me to install it on my kubuntu desktop. It’s installing now, so we’ll see how it goes.

By: Spiv

Spiv — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:32:57 +0000

woah, x11. Man it’s been a long time. That and CDE. Clearly I’ve moved too far away from all things unix.

I dunno, I still like KDE. Maybe I’ll boot up gnome on a machine tonight just to mess around.

Either that or try to get my old sparc5 running, just for kicks.

By: Virgil Samms

Virgil Samms — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:59:28 +0000

I have full confidence in the open source development community to add some bugs and “features” to the new Gnome to make it annoying.

By: Lassi HippelÃ¤inen

Lassi HippelÃ¤inen — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:32:52 +0000

Vote for Xubuntu.

KDE is a nice idea. Clean architecture always is. Having all applications reuse as much code as possible is very good for small machines. For example, run Gnome + Firefox + OpenOffice and you have three graphics engines in the RAM. Platform-agnostic applications like FF and OOo must be self-sufficient. But KDE + Konqueror + KOffice has only one, because the appliKations use the services of KDE.

Unfortunately the implementation isn’t nice. Too much eye useless candy that only introduces bugs. KDE 4.1 worked in my Acer One, but KDE 4.2 crashed even X. So now I’m back to XFCE. My desktop machine still runs KDE 3.5, but I’ll install Xubuntu on it, too.

By: Wayne Conrad

Wayne Conrad — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:19:50 +0000

I apologize for the double post. Yes, I’m an idiot.

Greg, “pests” are office mates who want to use my computer when I’ve wandered away and left the screen unlocked. Everyone here has their own, so anyone wanting to use mine is up to no good. Hence my use of the word “pest” for someone in that role. An unfriendly desktop helps discourage that sort of behavior. Not that making the desktop unfriendly is the primary purpose I use Sawfish rather than Gnome or KDE. It’s just an added benefit.

It’s not security, and I don’t make the mistake of thinking it is. Security is handled with other mechanisms.