Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 16, 2003 09:38 PM
I have been using KDE exclusively since very early on in my Linux quest.
And, dear fellow anonymous user, that's the most popular mistake. Also, in general, argumenting like "I've always used product A only, so I can say product B sucks ass" is not very convincing.
I can say, every time I've tried a new distro (which has usually shipped with new(to me) kde and gnome), I have tried both. To this day I still haven't found out why should I, or anyone else, use a desktop environment, which starts slowly, looks weird(ugly), applications start slowly, start menu and panel are cluttered with things I don't need, Yes, I'm talking about KDE.
What looks good is always a subjetive matter, but I think gnome 2.4 with a good theme and some customization looks really great. Why would I want kazillion things on the start menu when I need only 5-10.
Anyway, KDE may be good for starters, like someone said people can play around with control center, change background images etc. which may help them feel at home with the new OS. This is fine, but how about advanced users? Yes you can clean your menus, disable annoying helpers, make shortcuts etc. but it won't change an elephant into a jaguar. When you know what you want to be done, you don't want to wait seconds here and there just for nothing.
Well, I guess these rants will never change anything but really, especially those who have "always used exclusively X" it's about time you tried something else. Especially something lightweight and fast, which gets things done just as well. You'll be hooked with the speed, feeling of the "instant response" is something you'll never want to give up after that.
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Re:Gnome vs KDE
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 16, 2003 09:38 PMI have been using KDE exclusively since very early on in my Linux quest.
And, dear fellow anonymous user, that's the most popular mistake. Also, in general, argumenting like "I've always used product A only, so I can say product B sucks ass" is not very convincing.
I can say, every time I've tried a new distro (which has usually shipped with new(to me) kde and gnome), I have tried both. To this day I still haven't found out why should I, or anyone else, use a desktop environment, which starts slowly, looks weird(ugly), applications start slowly, start menu and panel are cluttered with things I don't need, Yes, I'm talking about KDE.
What looks good is always a subjetive matter, but I think gnome 2.4 with a good theme and some customization looks really great. Why would I want kazillion things on the start menu when I need only 5-10.
Anyway, KDE may be good for starters, like someone said people can play around with control center, change background images etc. which may help them feel at home with the new OS. This is fine, but how about advanced users? Yes you can clean your menus, disable annoying helpers, make shortcuts etc. but it won't change an elephant into a jaguar. When you know what you want to be done, you don't want to wait seconds here and there just for nothing.
Well, I guess these rants will never change anything but really, especially those who have "always used exclusively X" it's about time you tried something else. Especially something lightweight and fast, which gets things done just as well. You'll be hooked with the speed, feeling of the "instant response" is something you'll never want to give up after that.
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