Now that Gnome 2.0 has been released (and, from the screenshots, it loos better than previous) I wondered what people thought was the best and why?
I think new gnome is MY best way. It load faster than kde3, i like the gnome interface more than the 'windows like' interface of kde3, nautilus2 is more beautiful and reliable than konqueror, gnome2 has fewer memory
Seeing as this is looking like a genuine discussion rather than a flame war, I'll chuck my opinion in. :) First up, I haven't tried GNOME2 yet. I read the very negative review on Slashdot at the end of last week and thought I'd wait until it's been polished a bit and more apps are ported over. So not only are you guys getting my opinion, you're getting my uninformed opinion too. :) I really would like to move from KDE. As the bloat in there continues to grow it just gets slower and slower. Those who keep their machines up to date probably don't notice it so much, but I don't do anything which requires 2ghz, so why should I upgrade my machine just so I can run an *environment* at decent speed? I was thinking GNOME2 might be the answer, but not after reading that review. It looks like they've finally dragged themselves into the world of decent looking anti-aliased fonts, but still can't write a bit of code which implements a good quality, standard file dialog box. :sigh: I thought Sun were looking at usability issues for GNOME? People talk about Backbox, IceWm, etc., but those aren't real environments (or are they? Is my knowledge here outdated?) I want to be able to click on a link in my news reader and have my browser open. I want to be able to drag the URL to the desktop and see a link icon appear on the desktop. I want faultless drag and drop across apps, I want a CD player to pop up when I put an audio disk in the drive. It's obviously a lot to ask. Microsoft remain the only one's who've got close as yet. In the meantime, KDE is closer than GNOME1.4 was or GNOME2 appears to be at this stage. -- 1:48pm up 49 days, 5:54, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.01