Re: Kde or gnome
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On Wednesday 02 October 2002 04:24 pm, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> I played with gnome 1.4 and kde2, I really couldn't see much difference.
> I only have a 800x600 display and only a 233mhz pentium, so perhaps this
> could help me choose.
>
> Is one better suited to this spec than the other ?
>
> Matthew Joyce
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Pastern [mailto:david@scsenterprises.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 9:22 AM
> To: Joyce, Matthew; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: Kde or gnome
>
>
> Try both, see for you which one you prefer by usage, not opinion. I've
> been a gnome user for several years now, and i'm only just trying kde out.
> Both desktops are great imho, but try them both extensively to see which
> one you prefer.
>
> Dave
Greetings:
I was going to reply to your prior post, but I read the rest of the thread
first. Anyway, with the limited speed of your box, you might want to try
both of them, but it is *very* likely you will like something like Blackbox,
Fluxbox, or IceWM. These last three will reduce the sluggishness of your
computer in graphical mode. I am really pleased with both IceWM and Blackbox
myself. So much so that I have IceWM default on both this box and my laptop.
I really like Kde as well. It has a lot of features (aka bloat) that I
enjoy. I kind of shun away from Gnome, but that is just silly seizure-like
moments of flashbacks to my installs of Red Hat 6.2-7.3 :)
Now also know that you can add any of these as your "default" GUI if you use
Gdm or Kdm (these both come with Gnome/Kde). In my case, after I start x, I
see IceWM. From Ice, I can start any other GUI. Debian makes it very easy
to choose these on the fly.
Bottom line: If you have the room on the harddisk, then install them all!
Try them all out, then remove any of them that you don't like.
hth
gl
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