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- inactive, on 03/09/2008, -3/+286you spelled "Linux" wrong :)
- DarkDx, on 03/09/2008, -7/+63You fail for typing the correct name (linux) instead of the original "linix" you intended to type.
You fail so hard. - michuk, on 03/09/2008, -3/+41Oh I did fail so hard. I have nothing to defend myself...
- brettalton, on 03/09/2008, -31/+69Amazing, and I still don't like KDE.
- kipmartin, on 03/09/2008, -12/+43'Linix' is beautiful? no, Angelina Jolie is beautiful. Linux is merely functional, robust, and stable. like Janet Reno.
- slashbot, on 03/09/2008, -8/+34omg 'Linix' *asplode*
- fredmv, on 03/10/2008, -1/+26Thank you for substantiating your complete and utter ignorance. Replies like this don't even merit the time required to write a proper rebuttal...
- pandorazboxx, on 03/09/2008, -8/+32what's LINIX??
- evilregis, on 03/10/2008, -2/+25Dugg for humility.
- PuyoDead, on 03/10/2008, -6/+29I heard wendows sucks. Tell me more about this linix you speak of.
- jpkrautw, on 03/09/2008, -15/+36Having a sleek black color scheme with transparency doesn't make up for the fact the 'taskbar' window manager was invented in 1993, the use of negative space is horrendous, and there is a complete and utter lack of innovation. Give me Gnome + AWN + Compiz-fusion over this any day.
- SuperHyperKid, on 03/09/2008, -6/+25Apparently Polish Linux needs to polish their server maintenance. Sever fail.
- frazw, on 03/09/2008, -8/+24Not that Linux has featured very strongly lately but if you don't like it use the filters digg provides. Or do you like trolling that much?
- estvir, on 03/09/2008, -9/+25Oh no, someone doesn't like KDE, quick, let's say they don't matter and only those who like it matter!
I thought you Linux kids were all about honesty, free opinions, etc? Oh, right, only when it's not about your favourites things, like, how dare someone not like Firefox and prefer Konquere or Opera! How dare someone prefer OpenSUSE or Fedora over Ubuntu! - cdawzrd, on 03/09/2008, -4/+18http://duggmirror.com/linux_unix/Linix_is_Beautifu ...
- kkiran, on 03/09/2008, -3/+17Google Cache : http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:StIbg1_aDVMJ: ...
- fantasticFlan, on 03/09/2008, -3/+17A unneeded use of caps and one too many question marks to ask about a simple typo.
- frazw, on 03/09/2008, -3/+16Why do you read the comments atdigg?
- inactive, on 03/10/2008, -1/+14No, but if you shutup and don't click the links you won't have to deal with it.
- sdlvx, on 03/10/2008, -6/+18OSX is for arrogant ***** who are quasi-computer illiterate.
- PFS1, on 03/10/2008, -3/+15One of the nice things about plasma is that it more of an extensible framework that a set of definitive programs that have to be used. In the future, someone could write a dock plasmoid that could replace the taskbar natively. As for compiz-fusion, kwin now is now a compositing manager that can support those kinds of effects (and be a better actual window manager too....compiz fusion is lacking in that aspect). All in all just give it a bit more time to develop before writing it off.
- Echomote, on 03/09/2008, -1/+13Interesting point there.
- Narishma, on 03/10/2008, -1/+12You mean Linis Torvalds, right?
- KloroFormd, on 03/10/2008, -2/+12He's not dead...
- KloroFormd, on 03/10/2008, -4/+13Yet people get buried all the time for preferring Windows.
I use Linux as my main OS, and I still get annoyed by the hypocrisy. - spaceman77, on 03/10/2008, -5/+13KDE is for people who like complexity and many choices to their desktops.
GNOME is for people who like simplicity and unclutteredness.
Pick your flavour. - glock22ownr, on 03/10/2008, -2/+10I thought the spelling was some crude Polish joke...
- inactive, on 03/10/2008, -1/+9Functionality has nothing to do with the software it can run, one.
Second, your a retard and are completely incapable of understanding this anyways, so why not just shutup?
Linux is NOT an operating system, its a kernel. And GNU/Linux has plenty of software. Learn how to use Linux and its alternative softwares, and wine, and you'll be fine. - gameforge, on 03/10/2008, -1/+9Wait a minute - Compiz is not a part of GNOME; I use it with KDE and have for over a year (used Beryl/KDE before). You can't credit GNOME for it! It wasn't GNOME's idea, they just ended up with the first window manager and the initial configuration backend. Beryl, at least I thought, was the direct result of the Compiz developers/directors not supporting the idea of KDE compatibility, causing the fork; how do you fault KDE for this, or credit GNOME with it because a few developers selected an obviously capable desktop environment out of their realm of consideration in the beginning of their project's life? Once again, KDE works *just fine* with Compiz Fusion today, I use it myself and will happily provide the very simple instructions for using it on a fresh Kubuntu/Gutsy install. It's cake.
That said, the people who use KDE instead of GNOME do so for deal-breaking reasons - like, "I don't care how innovative it is, if you don't fix this, I'm not using it" type issues - and yeah, essentially the lack of configuration, the broken automation, and etc. are serious problems that I won't deal with. GNOME has had longer than KDE has existed to get *that* right, and it hasn't. You can pretty much do anything with KDE - you can make it look and act like basically any other OS, and there is a competent counterpart to just about every program out there for KDE, usually a good one, and in many cases superior to GNOME's counterpart - I'm talking Evolution, Amarok, Kopete, KOffice, etc.
That said, KDE works just fine with GNOME software - GNOME, on the other hand, doesn't always play well with KDE software; it also doesn't always work right if you simply run it along side KDE either.
If you'd like to tell me about all of the great, innovative things that GNOME does that KDE 3.5.x won't do, I'd consider switching. But lets not start counting third-party stuff like Compiz Fusion that can be done just fine on both until you can show me that it does it "out of the box" on Ubuntu but not on Kubuntu. Also, I own Vista, and I would never say that it's beyond Kubuntu in desktop functionality; that actually sounds absurd to me. There are FAR more desktop toys and settings to play with in KDE, while remaining equally functional if not more so as far as launching programs, providing multimedia compatibility, being consistent in app API's, managing computer services and installed software, and offering a competent browser. Come to think of it, KDE trumps Vista in just about all of those ways with the one exception perhaps being security. Also, KDE doesn't require 1.5G of memory, *especially* with bare minimum settings - unlike Vista, which will happily resemble Windows 95's interface (i.e. EVERYTHING turned off) while still wasting TONS of memory and system resources (it thrashes, games crash due to no memory with even 2G installed, etc.)
So what is it? What does GNOME have in most out-of-the-box distros that KDE doesn't, and which distros? - inactive, on 03/10/2008, -1/+9GTK File Dialogs is my main gripe with GNOME.
Along with many other things, though... - shotgunefx, on 03/10/2008, -1/+9Never had that problem, my gripe with Gnome is how control of the desktop is limited because someone else doesn't think I should be given too much rope.
- ostracize, on 03/10/2008, -0/+7http://xkcd.com/386/
- aroedl, on 03/10/2008, -0/+7Comment Statistics: 40 % Linux haters, 30 % Gnome fanboys, 20 % spam, 10 % insightful comments.
- Lick, on 03/10/2008, -6/+13Those screenshots do remind me of Aero. =/
- michuk, on 03/09/2008, -2/+9It's a new distro basing on KDE SVN and maintained by schwestowitz.
- dualscreenman, on 03/09/2008, -4/+10Taskbar tooltips that look like they belong with Plasma is awesomeness, as is the Coverswitch effect.
- inactive, on 03/10/2008, -1/+7Your obviously either an idiot or not a programmer because i know for a fact it could be made possible to make plasmids replace the task bar.
- KennMac, on 03/10/2008, -0/+6Nice, duggmirror actually caught something for once.
- armo, on 03/10/2008, -3/+9I was a bit bored last week so compiled KDE4 from svn. Simply amazing how far it has come since the 4.0 release. There's a lot that's still to be done but it will be an awesome DE once it matures a little more.
- jacobmp92, on 03/10/2008, -2/+8Running Windows in a virtual machine.
- estvir, on 03/10/2008, -5/+11Not liking something != troll.
- inactive, on 03/10/2008, -0/+6Yay, Another person here isn't an idiot.
- Remmy, on 03/10/2008, -1/+6You forgot the part where they lay down their carpets and pray to pictures of Steve Jobs composed of Apple products while sipping their kool-aid.
- wolf08, on 03/10/2008, -0/+5You do know that the current 'taskbar' or 'panel' in Plasma is a plasmoid, right? So... it's already done.
edit... and of course I responded one level up from where I was supposed to... sorry. This comment is in response to burrgrinder - fantasticFlan, on 03/10/2008, -2/+7No, if minimal is what you want, KDE probably isn't for you. Do a little searching and you'll find something more suited to you tastes.
- n3tfury, on 03/10/2008, -2/+7yes, because that means only 63 people visited the site o.O
- inactive, on 03/10/2008, -3/+8Themes people.
And look at the widget theme - its pretty unique looking to me.
Sure, windows and widgets have some similarities to Aero - but its already beginning to diverge, especially feature wise. - inactive, on 03/10/2008, -0/+5Some of us prefer a full desktop suite. I love the terminal, but GUIs are plain better for some tasks.
KDE4s initial release was extremely disappointing, Dolphin not being able to to Ctrl+Drags and having crappy behavior and much of KDE had worse expandability in version 4 (Fit to Height in GwenView was MISSING! I wanted to kill someone.) - inactive, on 03/10/2008, -3/+7Gnome is ***** ugly. KDE is the only way.
- inactive, on 03/10/2008, -0/+4Windows is for people who need to get their work done, but can't take the time to learn new things. Linux is for people who try new things. OSX is for people who put eye candy over usability and call everyone else's OS ugly and unusable.
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