KDE v GNOME

I'm actually a Fluxbox fan and have used it for years, I like how lightweight and uncluttered it is (good for people who like using the command line a lot). Recently I moved over to KDE because i wanted to use some of the apps. I've never used Gnome for more than a couple of minutes really, my initial attempts haven't been impressive. I thinks it's the KDE configuration options that makes me like it more, and the vast range of applications that come as standard.

Slackware 10.2 onwards doesn't contain Gnome at all now, so I won't have the option of booting into it when I decide to upgrade my distro.

Cheers :)
 
KDE

Without a doubt.

Reasons I like KDE:-
Kparts - reuse of code for things like HTML render etc
DCop - apps "talking" between themselves
Koffice - not as slow and clunky as OOo imho
Applications - just about everything I need, from KTorrent, to Konversation, that all stitch together nice


Things I HATE about KDE:-
Arts - awful sound system that desperatly needs replacing with alsa once and for al
Great ideas but seem to do it "too high" - eg DCop, amazing, but why wasn't it done 'lower' so other apps can access it. Sort of being done now with DBus. Same sort of goes for arts and now, to my disgust, their automount solution.


I think its a major misconception about KDE being slower and more 'bloated' than Gnome. Most distros just install the whole KDE package when you install KDE. But something like the split kde builds on Gentoo slim down KDE to just what you want. Very very tidy.
 
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Of recent times ive come to prefer Gnome it just feels more polished than KDE. with Redhat 6/7x i prefered KDE, but since then it just seems all patched together rather than intergrated.
 
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