Gnome or KDE?

Sebastien rootmaniac at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 17:33:24 UTC 2005


The big advantage of Gnome is that it is simpler than KDE but yet very powerful.
I also think that gnome has a more professional look an feel.


On 4/18/05, audriusb at homelan.lt <audriusb at homelan.lt> wrote:
> Quoting mbuel76 <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org>:
> I was working with KDE long before GNOME was born and I agree that KDE was
> better than GNOME but once upone time UNIX users community selected GNOME as
> main desktop because of license issues which existed in KDE that time.
> Now KDE became free, but play was lost: GNOME got good support from Ximian and
> programmers, who spent long time at GNOME studies will never back to KDE.
> 
> Gediminas Bukauskas
> 
> >
> > Car analogy:
> >
> >
> >
> > Gnome is like the stripped down Kia that doesn't come with any options,
> > and even with options it's not that attractive or intuitive but manages
> > to get the job done.
> >
> >
> >
> > KDE is a Fully loaded Subaru.  It comes with a whole load of options
> > including alot of stuff you don't really need.
> >
> >
> >
> > I myself prefer KDE, and strip it down to the options I want using the
> > awesome apt system.
> >
> >
> >
> > that's my opinion of it, GNOME doesn't fit me KDE does.
> >
> >
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