On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 05:02, Sharpe, Richard wrote:
Hi
Just searching for opinions on using KDE or GNOME, which is most popular in LINUX, I have used both and coming from a Solaris background like KDE as it is most comfortable to me, but if GNOME is easier or has the biggest following then I want to guide customers of mine to that work environment and use GNOME myself also to get better acclimated.
I'm a Linux newbie (about three months now) and I have just gone thru deciding which to use. Keep in mind that these are just my personal opinions and that some or all of the problems I experienced may have been due to my lack of knowledge. However... Coming from a Windows environment, I like the way Gnome works as it is very similar to the Windows gui. On the other hand, KDE is more mature and seems to be more stable. Gnome crashed on me several times. One of the crashes took my root password with it but I suspect this had more to do with the way I "corrected" the problem than anything else. At some point, Nautilus apparently got corrupted in such a way that it caused problems even in KDE. An uninstall/install of Nautilus solved that problem. In contrast, KDE has never crashed on me even when I knew next to nothing about Linux. There are also more applications designed for KDE although most can be used even in Gnome. I like Gnome and I think it is eventually going to become more popular than KDE but, for now, I have decided to stay with KDE. Don Henson