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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Wow. Four major questions, one composer ;).
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, David Willcox wrote:
Hi there,
A little confused and of course personal bias cannot be denied I'm running SuSE 6.3 and was told by a Redhat specialist that Redhat was the one to stay with for long term
Rubbish. We're not talking about QDOS vs. CPM/80, here. It's not about market leverage or advertising money. It's about choice. Find what's comfortable, and use it; even if it's not SuSE ;).
and also that Gnome was closer to windows ease than Kde.
More rubbish. One is no more `Windows-like' than the other. Each has their own respective quirks. See above ;).
So I went to his house to check things out and his Gnome was configured quite nicely. He showed me how easy it was for hin to get to printtool,etc.
Printtool is nifty, to be sure, but almost all of that can be done through YaST.
My Gnome screen is bad compared to his. Personally I was just getting used to Kde (about 2 weeks). He told me that Redhat doesn't have problems in a window mgr. like wrong letters being typed from keyboard when in Xterm window of either Kde or Gnome.
Perhaps the default GNOME/E configuration in SuSE's distribution is a bit weak in comparison to RedHat's, but consider the weakness of *their* KDE implementation. IOW: See above. As for the keymapping issues, that can be adjusted, with relatively low time investment.
I know a few of you have told me SuSE is really in itself a leader of many standards but is there any truth to the xterm thing and which do you prefer to use as far as all the above?
I use KDE's desktop services (color, sound, icons) with the Blackbox window manager (paging, window decoration), and WTerm for a terminal emulator (based on rxvt but better tuned and lower memory footprint). This has been my configuration for about three or more months, after five years of using Linux. Don't ask me what I'll be using in three years, but this is what I like now. This is what I've *chosen* for myself, because this is what is *comfortable*. See above ;).
Hi everyone. We have tried millions of window managers and KDE desktops. We simply use KDE because it doesn't crash anymore. Gnome does. So we use KDE. So if gnome doesn't crash for you, you like it and you use it, then stay with it. Otherwise xterm works great for us. Advice: You don't like SuSE! Best wishes from Clara (yes a girl) at FeF, Spain. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/