From GNOME to KDE and Back Again

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?"

Comments

I'm looking

[smittyoneeach]

...for gnome.el and kde.el, but not finding them.
Are gnome and kde part of this new-fangled "X" thingy people seem to be on about lately?

It's that time, again

[k-zed]

Damn it. There are times when you just look at the article title and you know that a long, delicious, juicy flamewar is coming up...

And I just lost my mod points, too. :(

Re:That's the beauty of open source...

[Daengbo]

OK. Now that I've read that entire article, I want to ammend my statement. The next Roblimo contribution doesn't need to be Vi vs. Emacs: he's already covered Kate vs. Gedit and Thunderbird vs. KMail. He even went so far as to drop into why he prefers Linux over Macs and Windows machines. Talk about trying to get 5 flamewars going at once ....

Re:question about GNOME ...

[gbjbaanb]

One thing I do like about GNOME is that they have a built-in emacs key-binding option, which I can't figure out how to get in KDE yeah, well KDE has a built-in vi key-binding option, so there.

umm..

That's probably not helping, is it.

Re:Real brain-twister

[karnal]

Switch out the Quarter Pounder with a Whopper with Cheese and you just might have something on the same track.

Re:No, he's right.

[harry666t]

Your nikname reads "KAnonymous Koward".

Re:Here we go again

[Anonymous Crowhead]

As long as we all agree that Captain Picard used Emacs while he spread all measures of awesome throughout the galaxy. That is in stark contrast to Kirk, who used Vi to compose love notes to alien whores in his quest to spread space AIDS to as many planets as he possibly could before being canceled.

KI Khate Kit

[somegeekynick]

Ki Khate KKDE forK Kabsolutely Kno Kreason Kat Kall.

Re:Real brain-twister

[Pichu0102]

I'm sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand. Could you restate that in the form of a car analogy?

That's exactly what I though with a sigh of relief

[Gazzonyx]

Damn it. There are times when you just look at the article title and you know that a long, delicious, juicy flamewar is coming up...

And I just lost my mod points, too. :( If it makes you feel any better, you don't have the dilemma of trying to decide whether to mod a fanboy into the ground or light him up like a Christmas tree via posting a reply. Ironically, this pushes that very problem up stream to current mods. Right as they started doing 10 mod points, no less (when did that happen anyway?).

Happy hunting! First one to get forcibly rejected from Slashdot gets a bottle opener key chain! Double points for a k-line, and Quad for a z-line.

Re:moving panels, menus, etc..

[bigdavex]

Does anyone move into a room, office, flat and not think "that chair would look better there, we should have that colour for the walls and how about a pot plant?"?

Yes.

In the U.S., we refer to these people as "straight".

Re:Real brain-twister

[TheLink]

A Gnu herd for burgers.

Make sure you get some of that open sauce stuff.