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quicksilver 02-20-2002 08:43 PM

GNOME or KDE
 
What Desktop Environment do you use and like the most?
GNOME or KDE or something else? :cool:

Aussie 02-20-2002 08:45 PM

I like KDE but I also use a lot of gnome apps.

dj_relentless 02-20-2002 08:46 PM

Something else :)
Depends if your after eye candy or not..

Syncrm 02-21-2002 04:25 AM

heh... yeah, i'm gonna go with something else as well. i'm generally not all that fond of a window manager that slows down your system.

acid_kewpie 02-21-2002 05:16 AM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t=GNOME+or+KDE

how about just searching for EXACTLY the same question asked last week.

therion12 02-21-2002 08:09 AM

repeat post, but right now i am using Gnome 1.4 with a bunch of my favorite KDE apps like konqueror and kmail.

Stephanie 02-21-2002 08:21 AM

I personally like KDE best, becuase it offers better because it seems brighter and less gloomy than GNOME. But GNOME is faster and uses a little less resources than KDE.

But keep in mind both these desktops use up your system resources quite a bit, but since I am running a 14Ghz 1GB ram system, I dont see that much difference in speed.

Stephanie 02-21-2002 08:21 AM

I personally like KDE best, becuase it offers better because it seems brighter and less gloomy than GNOME. But GNOME is faster and uses a little less resources than KDE.

But keep in mind both these desktops use up your system resources quite a bit, but since I am running a 1.4Ghz 1GB ram system, I dont see that much difference in speed between the slim window managers and KDE or GNOME.

Syncrm 02-21-2002 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by shadowhacker
since I am running a 1.4Ghz 1GB ram system, I dont see that much difference in speed between the slim window managers and KDE or GNOME.
you suck, shadowhacker! :-)

*grumble* wish i had a 1.4ghz box. :-P

therion12 02-21-2002 12:18 PM

Quote:

But keep in mind both these desktops use up your system resources quite a bit,
but since I am running a 14Ghz 1GB ram system, I dont see that much difference
in speed.
First of all i think you mean 1.4Ghz, which would probably be an Athlon t-bird. Alot of ram you got there :-)

I'm thinking whether or not i should upgrade from 256Megs in my linux box (the one in the sig). I have $178 from my first paycheck and i might be getting alittle bit more. Should i get a stick of Crucial PC2100 512Mb for $160? will 768Megs be a huge difference from 256megs? i know that in windows people say that anything above 512MB is not really taken advantage of unless you are running graphics intensive applications like maya.

But does KDE or GNOME speed up when extra ram is added? thanks

P.S. My motherboard supports 1.5Gb max (512MBx3)
:cool:

Stingreen 02-21-2002 03:09 PM

I use neither of them. cause they both suck.(really)

Stephanie 02-21-2002 03:13 PM

Therion..

Windows 95, 98 and ME do not make use of any RAM above 512, but NT, 2K, and XP can.

As far as whether you will see a big performance increase with 768 instead of 512... probably not, unless you are really pushing your system.

The main reason for this is that KDE and GNOME are not very well threaded, nor do they load what they can into RAM if it is available. As a result, even if you put 1.5GB in there, KDE and GNOME will not make good use of it, and when under heavy load, they will be slow to respond. Hopefully, the developers of these fine desktops will correct this problem.

Now my system... yes, I like speed. I'm an impatient girl, and hate waiting for anything on computers. When I say I want something done, I wanted it yesterday. With this setup I have now, I find that my only real slow-up is my hard drive access. And flash disks are way to expensive right now. But rest assured, when I win the lottery, become independantly wealthy, or the drive price drops, I will get a few.

(mmmmm, 0.24 second disk access times)

therion12 02-21-2002 04:00 PM

yeah i know that. ok thanks i will get more ram then just for fun.

trickykid 02-21-2002 04:11 PM

right now i just reformatted my main machine... using slack 8 like always.
for the time being i am using Gnome 1.4. It works is all I care about. I like the look better than KDE. KDE is too cluttered and hogs way too much even though my machine could handle it though. usually i use a smaller manager like window maker or xfce.. and or have used blackbox.. in which my other machines are using xfce.

this brings up something.. i was going to use by default window maker... from the initial install, i selected it as the default but it won't load... like its broken.. anyone else get it to be default after a clean install of slack 8... i'll just have to go download and reinstall if i want it.. just been too lazy to do it.. or no need to right now..

-trickykid

Stephanie 02-22-2002 10:04 AM

Well now heres a few questions...

I can say I like the look of KDE, but not the speed. So could one make a "theme" on Windows Maker that makes it look like KDE, and if so, would it slow down like KDE or be fast?

And second, why is it some windows managers run faster than others, when there is not much difference in their functionality? Are some more multi-threaded, or just use alot less code?


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