Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote:
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote:
> > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian,
> > > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse?
> >
> > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-)
>
> As stated previously I am a newbie in the Linux world, but one that seen
> enough to know that there is no going back now! So currently I don't really
> have a loyalty to any of the higher level window systems. I would be
> interested in knowing from your experience why you feel that Gnome is
> superior to KDE. I guess what I am looking for deals more with the
> functionality than anything else and not speed. So far going from Windoze to
> Linux/KDE is like going from dialup to wireless!
>
It really depends on what you want. KDE is better if you want to fine
tune how your system runs (But KDE is sluggish in my opinion), GNOME
is a /bit/ lighter without much customization involved. Xfce is the
best of the three in my experience, giving the user both control and
speed.
Or, if you want to really save your CPU cycles, try a window manager.
Fluxbox/FVWM/WindowMaker are the best in my opinion, I personally use
Window Maker (As I've stated dozens of times on these mailing lists).
You really don't have to worry about desktop integration, because if
you love Kmail and Kwallet then you could run the Kwallet daemon when
you log in and have all of the functionality of Kwallet in say,
GNOME/Fluxbox.
# aptitude install fluxbox wmaker icewm gnome-core kde-core xfce4 xfwm4
And give them all a shot :)
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