On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:56 -0600, Robert Paulsen wrote:
For me, KDE4 looks to be not worth the learning curve. Since KDE4 forces me to learn *something* new and less usable than KDE3 it seems worth considering Gnome.
I'd be interested in hearing from those who use it and what their experiences are.
I saw this coming and switched my household to Gnome when I installed 11.0 and haven't been sorry. Gnome *is* less configurable than KDE 3.x but the defaults are fairly sensible and naive users don't have any trouble being productive right away. The fact that Nautilus shows mounted USB keys on the desktop, for example, is *very* helpful to new users. I have eight to ten virtual desktops dedicated to applications all the time and do a lot in a terminal, so I don't much care if I'm using KDE, Gnome, XFCE or whatever most of the time. I was using lots of Gnome stuff when I was running KDE as my desktop, and I now use k3b and kooka just fine under Gnome, so it really doesn't make a whole lot of difference. It doesn't hurt to have a working knowledge of Gnome anyway, since it is the default for some of the other dominant distros such as Ubuntu. I found that Linux Mint worked best of all those that I tried on our antique laptop, so when we grab it out of the rubble and flee the great earthquake we'll have a familiar desktop. -- N. B. Day N 39° 28' 25" W 119° 48' 37" 1404 meters up Aurelius up 1 day 23:19, 2 users, load average: 0.56, 0.45, 0.28 2.6.27.7-9-default x86_64 GNU/Linux openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org