Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[Donald Henson <wepin@xxxxxxxxx>]

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