KDE or GNOME

[evilseed]

Ok.. I am just curious on which window manager people prefer more.. KDE or GNOME?


I personally at this time haveing experienced mandrake/slackware/and redhat 7 (downloading 7.2) I am more of a KDE kind of guy... Gnome seems to be more like a windows system. Of course gnome i feel does have the default setup to be more user friendly than KDE.. Kde does all the same.. you just got to get used to it...


Those are my thoughts.. What are yours..


Oh by the way.. I heard something about "Enlightment??" (-Havent used it yet-)

[freeOn]

I like the KDE better..

I think they both look like a windows system there's not that much difference between the two at least when you look at them.

I really want that lindows os that there coming out next year with. I can't wait till that comes out.

[ThePreacher]

I prefer KDE, but that is considering that I have only used linux off and on for the last 4 weeks. I have a good friend who prefers the command line.

[UberC0der]

KDE is cool, I think it has a lot of portential in areas other than the Desktop too. I have creative differences with the politics behind it, but it is very clean and stable.

Gnome is cool too, in many ways it has not really evolved, just new GTK themes and a few bug fixes and such. I still think it's a great deskop though.

To be perfectly honest I think KDE and Gnome are about equal in my book, and I rarely actually use either.

Enlightenment is my favorite for tweeking and goofing anround with window manager design.

For pure speed and minimalism I like balckbox.

[Info_Au]

As i just got myself a new p.c i will be installing some type of linux soon so thanks for the Info;)

[hehbris]

ximian gnome is the best windows system i have ever seen. www.ximian.com

[Syxx]

To the guy that wants "Lindows":

I really hope you are not serious, if you are, you must be completely retarded.

Lindows is nothing but Linux which is free, and a 3rd party tool which is also free, being packaged together and sold for $99

You can already do everything lindows is going to do, free of charge and without the stupid name.

syxx@attrition.org

[evilseed]

does anyone have any more information on enlightment, blackbox, and Lindows?



Is Lindows supposed to be a Windows / Linux Combo??

BlackBox does it have any interesting features?


enlightment i heard that this is the most graphically in depth? how so?

[freeOn]

To the guy that wants "Lindows":

Ireally hope you are not serious, if you are, you must be completely retarded.

Lindows is nothing but Linux which is free, and a 3rd party tool which is also free, being packaged together and sold for $99

You can already do everything lindows is going to do, free of charge and without the stupid name.
quote from the 10 year old

Correction you can't
and dahhh geee george you don't make sense george, retard, retard, what are you 10 years old. Lindows is not exactly Linux.

Becauseof its unique ability to run Linux® software titles as well as many popular Windows® (Nasdaq "MSFT") software titles, computer owners and organizations of all sizes will soon have an option for their new computers.

See where it says many popular Windows software titles, Can you do that with Linux I think not...

[Therealmaster]

Originally posted by evilseed
Ok.. I am just curious on which window manager people prefer more.. KDE or GNOME?


Personally i use KDE because the version of GNOME i got is all buggy and i didn't want to download the update to it. :mad:
The principle behind GNOME rocks though. :D

[Matty_Cross]

FreeOn,
I thought that you could run Windows programs in Linux.. but first you had to either run ... Wine was it?? or something that allowed you to run a Windows is a window on linux...

I can't remember, I just had a discussion about it a while ago....

[eXist]

well personally i havent really used much of either a whole lot. dad and me loaded redhat onto the new old computer, haven't really used it much though. from what i've seen though they both seem about equal but i think KDE is the default on it now. both seem pretty damn fine to me.
but then all this is coming from a 14 year old, lol.

[Rewandythal]

I prefer KDE to Gnome, but Enlightenment to both of 'em...

And VMWare is better than Wine (VMWare is a virtual machine... it's not free, but it does a good job of running Windows inside Linux)

[Paul Zest]

KDE vs GNOME

Tuff one that. I've used both, I like both. I stopped getting serious about KDE cus *gULp* read the licence !!!

If you use this system professionally you have to pay the owners some dosh (currency), well that smacks of MicroGrab again. So F*#k that I'll stick to the free stuff without any encumbrances.

That was a few years ago now, I wonder have things changed? If things remain the same as before then think twice about this window manager (KDE) if you want to use it in some commercial setting.

What's wrong with 'fvwm 95' anyway, or just a console with SVGAlib :D

PZ

[Rewandythal]

Enlightenment has a nice touch in that it looks *totally* different to Windows. I use Windows (but only because I have to to use the internet (only got a winmodem, dammit) and because Office 2000 works best in Windows and I have to use it so I can share documents with others, all of which are locked into the proprietary MS stuff).

KDE and GNOME both look a lot like Windows, though I use KDE as root because it makes administration easy to use, but as a standard user I prefer Enlightenment...

Nothing wrong with FVWM, but Enlightenment has that "totally non-windows" feel to it... it's got a futuristic look to it that is just so intriguing... I love using Enlightenment, in case you haven't already worked that out!!!!

[fata]

I believe sun microsystem's Star Office let's you save in ms office formats. :)

[Rewandythal]

Yus, but since I have to use MS Office at skool, i need it at home so i can carry on with what i've been doing... its not just a case of the same file format, its the same interface etc. The other advantage of windows is that when other people use it, for whatever reason, they're not freaked out by how nothing works as they expect it to!!!

[a_420_hacker_24]

well I like KDE alot ...but I have to say that gnome is the way to go it seems to work better with devices.Plus I love the look and feel of gnome.

but they are both great x-windows systems..