Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 00:47:35 +0000 (/etc/localtime) From: Fredrik Olausson <fredrik@speechcraft.com> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome vs. KDE Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106050038080.127-100000@molly.telia.com> In-Reply-To: <3B1C052C.CFD00356@acuson.com>
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I second the opinion of most posters on this thread; try them both. However, being in love with my own voice (or is it my typing?) I'll post my own very subjective opinions, since you asked ;-) I started out with FVWM, being the default WM back in the days when I first started out with Linux, and it is the WM I use on my weakest laptop, since it is very resource-light. It has a rich configuration language, and if you're up to it, you can really create an original confguration which makes it an extension of yourself, sort of. Gnome is very good indeed. I haven't tried it for about a year now, but I have heard that it has made great progress. What I found difficult with it is that there is no central place for configuration of your environment, since Gnome lets you use virtually any windowmanager on top of it. Thus, you can sometimes set the same thing in two places, which I don't like (hears the *whooosh* of a backdraft flamewar ;-) On those of my boxes which can handle it, I use KDE 2.1.1, which I think is great. It is very stable, beautiful, and easy to work in. However, it does take a lot of resources, so it can be a bit slow. It has a very clean, corporate feel to it (appealing to the capitalist in me), so sometimes I long for the "hacker" feeling of Gnome+enlightenment ;) Try them all to see which you prefer, it's a lot of fun in itself. -Fredrik > Tim Erlin wrote: > > > > Alright, so let me turn it into an etiquette question > > (seems appropriate for -newbies). As a newbie, my > > resources for 'which is better' answers are pretty > > limited. I suppose the 'try both' method is good, but > > I'd like to draw on the experiences of those on this > > list. I can understand avoiding asking this on > > -questions, but it seems to me that this kind of > > discussion is just right for -newbies. Or is it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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