KDE Or Gnome. Which Is The Desktop Of Your Choice - and why ? (screenies welcome )

Ever since i started using linux, ive been a KDE user.
Every now and again, maybe 4 times in total, ive tried Gnome.

I dont know why, but i just keep getting drawn towards it, only to then gt scared off, and go back to the familiar KDE interface.

Only this time, ive moved over to Gnome, and i love it !
gnome 2.8 didnt quite work for me, but 2.10 (and the up comming 2.12) have me hooked.

Ive even started un-installing most of my KDE components.

I think in the end, it wasnt that i prefere Gnome to KDE, but rather, i prefere GTK to QT.

KDE just seems so clutttered, and so harsh, thick deep lines, and too higher contrasts (like the way winXP blinds you with that awfull shade of blue)

If you have ever read "the restaurant at the end of the universe" you will understand what i mean when i say that with Gnome.. the desktop is sooo slick, that your eyes will just slide off it if your not carefull.

Dont get me wrong... i still like KDE.

But Gnome is just gives a more minimalist feeling to it all.

the desktop looks soo beautifully vacant.

I have included some screenies of my Gnome desktop with the "water vapour" GTK2 theme, and OpusOS Window theme.

Some people will spend ages customising there desktop, this is pretty much a default gnome desktop.

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The truth be told.. I tried out Linux for 6 months because of a whole bunch of hiccups with my Windows.. but during those 6 months I wasn't able to do much constructive production on my comp.

Functionality is the key, and, for a normal person who has a moderate degree of computer usage, I'd say that multimedia, office utilities and products and graphics are pretty essential.

I found it easier to use KDE because of the inbuilt functionality. Unfortunately, I shifted to Redhat, where I lost out on a whole bunch of packaged programs. Installing programs from scratch was a tedious process and re-learning (often unlearning) my basic computing tasks was taking more time than I had available. The little I managed to use was a great experience.

KDE was a lot more simpler than Gnome as far as user friendliness was concerned.

Now however, I've moved back to Windows because I could not ever confidently bring work home because of my inability to learn under Linux fast enough. Windows is very much plug and play. Linux is mind over matter (unless one's been brought up on it). I do believe that most GUI in Linux have a bit of simplifying to go through before the masses take to it.

In India, now, acer has launched notebooks and PCs with Redhat for under INR35000/- ( USD780/- ) which has become immensely popular at the grass root levels. Default GUI on these machines is KDE.

 

 

 

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My Desktop is currently running SuSE 9.3 w/ KDE 3.4.0, upgrading it this weekend, so here's my screenie I took last week. I like KDE over GNOME because it looks and handles better than GNOME. I did some test on my laptop (701 MHZ Pentium III, 192 MB RAM) and I found that GNOME WAS SLOWER THAN KDE.



This screenshot contains a game screenshot which I placed on my desktop. If you're a Canadian, you should know that there's a problem in the screenshot.

I'm gonna post my laptop screenshot later, it's running SuSE 10.0 and GNOME 2.12.2..

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lol, thats exactly the type of desktop i hate..

there are no programs running, no windows open, the desktop is not beeing used for anything, but yet its completely cluttered.

you could get a kernel panick, and a memory dump on that screen without noticing the differance

Nice game screenie though.. what game is that ?

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never had a kernel panic , KDE is very stable (in fact the reason why GNOME was created was to be a replacement for KDE because of the QT license quarrel).

The game in the screenshot is Freelancer.

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Here's my newly installed gentoo KDE desktop:



I've tried Gnome quite some times, but I just can't stand it. The arrangement in the menu, the look and feel of it doesn't really appeal to me. IMO, KDE is much easier to use and customise than Gnome.

Another desktop I like is fluxbox. Once you customise fluxbox, it's very fast and lightweight. Of course, windows users will find it a bit difficult to use initially. Most of my friends who used my computer would rather press 'reset' and log into windows than try to break their heads over fluxbox .

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Ahhhhh Amarok.. possably the most initially confusing audio player, but also one of my favorites



i was just joking about desktop clutter

I guess one of the things that attracted me to Gnome, is that it is part of the GNU/Linux Project.

plus... gnome loads in just under a second... its about 4 seconds for KDE.

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I used both Gnome and KDE, my first expierence was with Gnome, so I thought I will try KDE, I liked it more due to it is more customizable and different apps are available and the k letter looks quite good, but Gnome is not so bad too and gtk apps looks much better there, but of course using GTK to QT Engine I didn't have appearance problems on KDE, what I do not like about KDE that it reminds me of windows.. a little off topic, but another good alternative is XFC which I like. But I still use KDE, just my brother is using XFC.

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I like both depending on my mood haha. I used KDE when I first put linux on my box but then at school the comps were all gnome only until this year they loaded on KDE (if you dig enough haha). But yea both are good choices, KDE is good for when I want a more useable look but I often end up in gnome when I'm coding... I dunno the general feel just seems more work-ish to me or something.

Fluxbox is also pretty nice for when you need a light interface on older hardware or whatnot.

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funny, according to tests, KDE loads faster and out performs GNOME on aa 701 Mhz 192 MB RAM laptop. The OS is SuSE Linux 10.0.

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