Well this is one of those religous wars, some people hate KDE some GNOME. As a personal thing I like both. The follwing are me impressions. KDE Plus points More robust than Gnome (ie less crashes) Very similar to Windows interface is some respects (some think this is a bad thing) Very good filemanager (KFM) Very good release cycle (ie new releases are very stable) Minus points Very similar to Windows Not as customizable in the looks department as Gnome (but KDE 2 will be) Long wait between new releases (but this is what nakes it stable - the developers test it a lot !) Gnome Plus Very configurable Very fast Seem to be a lot of apps useing GTK (the Gnome tool kit) so they integrate well. Fast release cycle Minus Not so stable No mailreader in core distribution yet (and Balsa is still very beta) There are also technical differences between the way the two are written which I am not qualified to comment on as I am not a programmer. It is said by some that Gnome is better technically though. Personally I would say install both and see which you like. I do and use Gnome to make people go oooh ahh isn't it pretty and KDE to get some work done. Pat On Thu Feb 24, at 22:12, 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 and also that Gnome was closer to windows ease than Kde. 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.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. 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?
Thanks for your help,
Dave Willcox :-)
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