linux-magazine.com — If you have been assuming, as I have, that GNOME has more corporate support than KDE, and a larger budget, a look at the latest report for GNOME and KDE may surprise you. Together, the two reports give an entirely different impression than you might assume.
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abbathdoomSep 17, 2009
I know QT and KDE are not the same thing, but you have to wonder whether Nokia will end up pumping even more money into KDE in the coming years, either directly or indirectly.
Closed AccountSep 18, 2009
Gnome is very clean looking, KDE is 90s looking to me because everytheme seems to have to have super shiny glowing interface and icons.
killerahSep 19, 2009
I have to say, I'm pretty darn impressed with KDE. I just switched over to 4.3 and I really like it, not too many infuriating bugs to speak of, and it runs smooth and looks really pretty. What more could you ask for?
kamikazowSep 19, 2009
Many options to configure aren't bad. They just need to be organized in a proper way.Luckily that's a goal of KDE 4. In most areas it already improved a lot over KDE 3.
kamikazowSep 19, 2009
I've never seen a proper survey on that topic. There are often polls here and there regarding the question which DE is the most popular. The results often vary on where the poll has been posted / advertised. Fedora and Ubuntu users are more likely to select GNOME, than Mandriva and SUSE users, for example.Common users seldom actually take such polls. Take the buyers of the first Asus eee PC. It came with KDE and was immensely popular. Do you think that many of them knew what KDE even is?
kamikazowSep 19, 2009
Considering that the GNOME Foundation was founded by Sun and HP, it's no surprise that its report has a corporate touch to it.
renegadeafkSep 19, 2009
I've used a couple other distros with kde4 on my own computer and experienced the same issues, even suse on my laptop with kde4. I didn't use it for long because of those annoying bugs though.Plasma LOVES to crash on me.
samslaterSep 20, 2009
But you only took exception to me mentioning the awful use of white-space, not which file browser was easiest to configure. Maybe dolphin is easier to configure, I don't know because I've not tried, but on default there's so much wasted space compared to nautilus, that's all I was saying.Personally, you could have mentioned that this problem was easily rectified on your first post. Oh well.....
tashtego67Sep 20, 2009
Damn you got dug down hard for a fairly innocent remark. There are some touchy fanboys on digg.