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From GNOME to KDE and Back Again

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the old-habits-are-hard-to-break dept.

Slashdot's own Roblimo has an interesting introspective on what makes us so prone to liking one window manager over another. More than likely it's just the inherent laziness of most users that precludes change. "I used KDE as my primary desktop from 1996 through 2006, when I installed the GNOME version of Ubuntu and found that I liked it better than the KDE desktop I'd faced every morning for so many years. Last January, I got a new Dell Latitude D630 laptop and decided to install Kubuntu on it, but within a few weeks, I went back to GNOME. Does this mean GNOME is now a better desktop than KDE, or just that I have become so accustomed to GNOME that it's hard for me to give it up?"

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  1. GNOME and screen real estate by NaCh0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The worst part about GNOME is the huge 64x64 icons, wasted whitespace on all of the toolbars and control panels, and what appears to be 16pt default font. They also get the ok/cancel buttons backwards. The "desktop" might be okay if you're a 60 year old blind man. Otherwise it's seriously frustrating to use.

  2. Icons on top... by mikael · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I've used both Gnome and KDE for over five years, but what I don't understand about Gnome is why the move to have icons at both the top and bottom of the screen. Is this to emulate the Mac look?

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  3. Why hate KDE? by spyfrog · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I remember one of the last times that Slashdot had a discussion about KDE and Gnome. That time it become painfully obvious that many Gnome followers has some of strange hatred of KDE and that they wish it dead and buried. KDE followers more seamed to be content to be able to choose whatever desktop environment they liked, thus not choosing Gnome.

    So, while Gnome followers would like to have KDE buried, KDE followers don't seam to really care if Gnome lives, as long as they don't have to use it.

    It would be funny to know why Gnome followers has a such more extreme view of DE choice - is it because they are the majority? Why can't you leave us that like KDE alone? Why continue to show your opinions down your throat?

    1. Re:Why hate KDE? by prockcore · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Are you kidding? If anything it seems to be the opposite.

      Any discussion involving Gnome will have people bring up Miguel loving Microsoft and Mono and how Gnome is going to doom us all to hell.

    2. Re:Why hate KDE? by HappySmileMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Any discussion involving Gnome will have people bring up Miguel loving Microsoft and Mono and how Gnome is going to doom us all to hell. Insulting Miguel for supporting Microsoft and Mono, and saying Gnome will doom us to hell is different from saying Gnome is inherently evil and should never exist.

      And it's VERY different from saying it should never exist based entirely on your own preference, with no reasons other than "BAWWW it's ugly and the options confuse me".
  4. Re:No, he's right. by westyvw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Easy on the eyes and hands? Maybe. Useful? No. I am so "stumped" as to why people like Gnome. I have used both, and in the end Gnome ALWAYS drives me nuts. Its like KDE went to college: a little smug, a little brash, but smart. And Gnome, well its like 3rd grade. It plods along, doesnt do much, certainly cant be taught anything. There is so much missing from gnome I don't even know where to start. Five minutes with it doing anything productive and I am cursing it, similar to the feeling I get with windows. KDE has a few rough edges, a bit complicated to configure, but once done, there is power there.