GNOME or KDE? what do you always use? ;)

kublador · 07-27-2003, 12:13 PM

GNOME or KDE? what do you always use?

just curious

pros and cons?

thanks

Nylex · 07-27-2003, 12:21 PM

Out of those, GNOME. I used to use KDE though.

darin3200 · 07-27-2003, 12:42 PM

I used to always use KDE. But it got big and slow so I switched to gnome. It tends to be a little bit faster. I actually prefer Blackbox and IceWM now because they are faster.

Skyline · 07-27-2003, 12:55 PM

Hi Kublador

KDE of course!

I use KDE under:

Slackware 9
Mandrake 9.1
Red Hat 9
Vector 3.2 SOHO

Dark_Helmet · 07-27-2003, 04:19 PM

You might want to take a look at this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=66669

I don't think many (or any) of the posts go into "why" but it gives you an idea of the popularity of certain setups...

bardinjw · 07-27-2003, 04:40 PM

i use kde most of the time.
it looks nice. lots of toys and eyecandy to play with.

my system though is definately faster and more stable under gnome though.

fancypiper · 07-27-2003, 04:40 PM

I don't like either. I use fluxbox.

Proud · 07-27-2003, 05:00 PM

KDE < Enlightenment < Fluxbox development versions

ikw38 · 07-27-2003, 05:05 PM

I have to say KDE. Every time I try to Gnome the thing crashes on me
no matter what version I am using.
KDE seems to be solid and stable for me.
I may try the others soo though.

ciao
ikw38

Mathieu · 07-27-2003, 06:06 PM

KDE because it is nicer to look at.
But when I need quick access, I use IceWM.

wr3ck3d · 07-27-2003, 06:42 PM

GNOME, I gave kde a try last month didnt like it...I always hear so much talk about it and there are so many add-ons so tried it again today, right away knew it wasnt for me. Takes about 11 hours to compile on this pc so was just a waste both times. GNOME is just so much simpler and KDE has so much bloat and a menu filled with 100 things that i would probably never use. Looking in GNOME start menu it has just a few needed things. Plus i think it looks nicer. I used fluxbox for the first 3-4 months i used linux and then tried gnome 2 and loved it. Cant wait for 2.4.

Riley · 07-27-2003, 07:01 PM

I like KDE and blackbox. KDE is nice looking and still very stable in my experience. Blackbox looks like a blackbox of course, but is much faster than KDE.
I'm running an Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 and the bloat doesn't bother my processor or myself any.

moeminhtun · 07-28-2003, 02:51 AM

I don't know why a lot of ppl like KDE.
It's too slow for me even on my P4 1.7 GHz machine.
I use GNOME with Redhat.

Vlad_M · 07-28-2003, 04:42 AM

I, on the other hand, don't understand how anyone could use GNOME. It is buggy (nautilus) and ugly. KDE is rock solid (for me) and I find it very fast.

However, I tend to use WindowMaker most of the time. No real performance increase - except on startup, but this machine is on 24/7 - I guess I am just so used to it.

moeminhtun · 07-28-2003, 04:57 AM

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Originally posted by Vlad_M
I, on the other hand, don't understand how anyone could use GNOME. It is buggy (nautilus) and ugly. KDE is rock solid (for me) and I find it very fast.

However, I tend to use WindowMaker most of the time. No real performance increase - except on startup, but this machine is on 24/7 - I guess I am just so used to it.

If you have used GNOME on Redhat 9.0, you would like it.