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- mazza558, on 10/20/2008, -1/+4I feel the opposite. Gnome hasn't caused me any headaches, but it seems KDE4 is where the exciting new apps are being developed.
- php4me, on 10/20/2008, -0/+2Disagree. I prefer GNOME over KDE but KDE destroys GNOME in the customization department.
- powerjg, on 10/20/2008, -0/+2I think the problem here is Kubuntu NOT KDE. When I was setting up my last system I went through 4-5 different distros before I found one that did KDE well. I found OpenSuse was the only distro that had sane settings for KDE4 initially. Kubuntu was the worse. I think most of the problem is that they are using older builds, but that's just a guess.
- regx, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1I am also concerned about kde4. I consider myself a power kde user and perfer kde to gnome for things like KIO plugins, Konqueror (profiles, man page, info pages, ftp, sftp, ssh via fish, svn, cvs etc), klipper (programmable clipboard), konsole (excellent terminal with notifications). Unfortunately most of this is left out by default in kde4. Dolphin is very lame in my opinion. I will probably end up running kde4 but make it behave like kde3.5 as much as possible. It is possible to use all of the kde3.5 stuff in kde4 until kde4 equivilents become available. I have an article about why I use kde 3.5 here http://regx.dgswa.com/html/node/4
- jadrian, on 10/21/2008, -0/+1KDE 3 was released 6 years ago. It's only natural that KDE 4 expects better hardware and has less conservative defaults. That said my laptop is 3 years old and run KDE 4.1 quite well even with only 512MB ram.
He's comparing KDE 3 which is now 3.5.10, 5 minor releases and 10 bugfix releases! with KDE 4, now at 4.1.2, still a baby. Of course it still misses some features, needs to be polished more, not all apps have been ported, and requires optimisations in terms of speed and memory use. All that as been happening since its release, it feels much lighter, faster, more feature complete and stable than 4.0. And Qt4 is also improving a lot.
Furthermore he's using Kubuntu, their releases was not amazing... like powerjg said, give openSUSE a try! He might also have an Nvidia, those are known to have defective drivers making composite super slow in KDE4. As for ramblings about Folderview and the like they are just retarded :P
I need a very stable desktop, my laptop is quite old, and I already felt comfortable to make the move to KDE 4.1.2 :) - cenarta, on 10/20/2008, -5/+5I know I go against so many techies when I say that I prefer Gnome over KDE. I don't know what it is, but every major release I always give KDE a fair shot as my primary desktop, but for some reason I always go back to Gnome. I know that Linus himself recommends KDE as do so many users on Digg. Feel free to call me crazy, but I love me some Gnome. And I love the fact that running Linux means I have a choice to use whatever environment suits me the best.
- ashgtx, on 10/20/2008, -0/+0you could customize it to look better...
kde3 in pclinux os and mint kde edition were very pretty - padraic2112, on 10/20/2008, -1/+1Blackbox.
- ManosHoF, on 10/20/2008, -4/+3I always felt like KDE was right about looks and GNOME is right about simplicity.
Ever since Compiz came out, GNOME is perfect.
It gives that visual 3D feeling, that makes you forget about GNOME looking bland(compared to other OS).
It's funny.
When I first installed Compiz, I used every visual effect with GNOME.
After a year, even the 3D cube got old.
Now it's almost as simple as GNOME......perfect. - ptFoe, on 10/20/2008, -6/+3KDE3 was butt ugly
- amdlinux, on 10/20/2008, -4/+1KDE4 looks just great - if Ubuntu Gnome edition would have the looks of KUbuntu 8.10 and the usability of Gnome, that would be a Mac OSX killer.
Many people also do not like the brown colors Ubuntu uses. - srg13, on 10/20/2008, -5/+2"I've never come across something I can't customize like everyone says"
This is true - I love Gnome, and never have a problem with configuration. People saying that you can't customise Gnome like you can KDE are just as bad as those who say that Linux doesn't support any hardware... - linuxlucas, on 10/20/2008, -7/+2Completely agree. KDE is so bloated, and GNOME is so simple and clean. I've never come across something I can't customize like everyone says, and I love having a menu for settings, apps and places. It so much easier then a menu which tries to fit everything like the 'Start' menu of KDE and Windows.
In anticipation, yes the Preferences and Administration menus are messy, but it barely a problem for me.
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