[aclug-L] Re: KDE or Gnome?

[james l <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Root/Great Overall Dictator replies:
> I'm thinking of spending some time learning a leading GUI environment, and 
> I've got it narrowed down to KDE or Gnome. (Enlightenment seems cool, but too 
> narrow.) Does anyone have any reasons why I should choose one over the other? 
> I was just looking at GnuCash (wife put me in charge of finances) and it 
> seems to be a wild smorgasbord of stuff using Guile (Schemers), XML, Perl, 
> Python, HTML, Gtk for hacking and scripting it. This one app is so intriguing 
> that I'm leaning towards Gnome now. KDE, OTOH, seems to be Qt only and maybe 
> farther along in general. Any thoughts y'all'd like to share?
> 

Be it known: I don't like how gnome looks. I do use it occasionally though.

From what I have heard, KDE is light-years ahead of GNOME in the modularity,
and because of that devel is actually much faster than nome, but the drawback
is that the virtual stuff required makes it slightly slower, but with recent
releases the speed is getting much better. 

Essentially: Use what you like depending on the system, it may be that one is
faster. (They are both horribly slow with machines with little ram like my
old 386/486 upgrade? 6.66 MB RAM machine. :) If not, use what works for you.
GNOME has some things I like (more wms to chose from) but I find KDE easier
to use. If so, I am sorry.

James L



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