On 04/24/2011 11:02 AM, Mike Coday wrote:
I imagine that this is hard to answer and quite subject to personal taste, but how about as a recommendation to folks who are new to linus and opensuse (like me)?
I am struggling a bit with the Gnome interface and I really would like to stay with linux this time, so is KDE easier to manage for the user trying to get away from Microsoft?
Thanks
Mike
I am partial to kde, I must admit that at the beginning. I suspect that many would think it's just a little bit harder than Gnome to deal with-- a lot harder if all the plasma stuff is turned on, and if that's the case, it will look and act so different from Windows that your newbie will hate it. (I'm not a newbie, and when I looked at Kubuntu last summer, I puked!) OTOH, the MINT distro, which is an offspring of Ubuntu, but without some of the difficulties that Ubuntu presents to a Windows person, will look quite familiar, even tho it really is a Gnome display. (Get the "standard" version, not one based on Debian, or LXDE, or something else.) Another possibility is Zorin, which can be set up to look and work very much like Windows XP, altho you will have to switch between GUIs to put icons on the desktop, and then switch back to the XP-type display. It's quite easy, actually, and for a newbie who has little computer experience outside of Windows, one of these two might be the easiest to use. One other thing--the main distros that use Gnome are either upgrading to Gnome 3, which I haven't seen, or in Ubuntu's case, Unity. Both, especially the latter, have provoked a certain amount of controversy and even hate on the lists. I suspect that kde will retain more of its own nature for a longer time. To continue my disclaimer at the beginning, I am using PCLinuxOs, with kde (now 4.6.2), and with just a little tweaking, it looks and works nicely. I haven't looked at opensuse's kde in the last 18 months or so, so I can't make a direct comment on that. A previous poster had to ask how to put the suse panel--what a Windows person probably calls the system tray--on the bottom of the display, as in some other distros and Windows, but it's easy to do. Welcome to Linux. whichever distro and/or GUI you choose. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org