Gnome users who have tried KDE: convince me!

[marc]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> In this whole thread I haven't seen a single Gnome feature mentioned
> that does not have a KDE counterpart. It seems that the only reason
> people like Gnome is because "it is not Windows" and these people
> avoid KDE because "it is similar to Windows". Being unfamiliar with
> Windows, this does not bother me.

I've never understood this meme. You can make gnome look like windows
and kde look like a mac; kde is nothing like windows, and certainly no
more than gnome.

> Does Gnome not have any merits of it's own?

In a way, it's an odd question, because, as you know, you can run apps
from either in both. Although some don't work very well.

That said, I find gnome Do reason enough too use gnome, and the whole
compiz thing is a lot more stable than kde, but perhaps kde has
stabilized since the kde4 mess.

I initially used kde over gnome because it provided more flexibility and
was far less limiting than gnome. That all changed with kde4 when very,
very basic things broke and I had endless kde-related display issues. I
filed bugs, chased and chased them, but things moved far too slowly -- I
still receive updates to some of those bugs many of which are
still unresolved.

I was seriously considering a move to a mac (I also tried all the other
usual Linux candidates) when I found gnome Do. This app masks and
counters most of gnome's inflexibility, imo, and made gnome usable.
Unfortunately, gnome Do doesn't, or didn't, work in kde.

As it stands, I see no compelling reason to go back to kde; gnome just
works, at least, for now.

-- 
Best,
Marc

"Change requires small steps."