It's only fair to compare KDE 4 to Windows Vista when they come out.
I for one have been folowing the progress of KDE since its 2.0 days and all I can say is they do an amazing job. Yeah, I agree, it always used a lot more memory than the Windows Explorer shell but I bet you would never notice that if you were not with you eyes on the memory gauge. And I can bet you that in the unlikely event some component in KDE crashes, you don't need to restart.
I run KDE 3.5_beta1 on Gentoo right now and have had no issues with it in 3 days usage. This includes desktop, file manager, instant messaging, mail, address book, calendar etc.
All I can say: KDE developers, keep up the good work!
I think a more relevant question would be "what kernel would be best for games"?
When it comes to games, your distro is only as good as your kernel. The fact that Cedega runs better on Suse or Gentoo is determined, IMHO by two things:
1. what services you have running -- you cannot play Doom 3 smoothly and serve 100 web pages/s. Many people leave on the defaults so this might be a distro aspect.
2. how good your CPU and I/O schedulers are -- this depends on your kernel flavour.
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Hey, man, easy on the coffee.
I suggested comparing it to Vista because i guess they will be out about the same time and therefore can be considered in direct competition.
Sure you can compare Gnome to Vista as well, but people were arguing that KDE uses twice the memory Windows uses.
I didn't bring Apple and OSX in because I never had the chance to try it out.
The enumeration of features in KDE 3.5 beta1 was just to point out that I had been using all that with absolutely no issues during the past 3 days.
It's only fair to compare KDE 4 to Windows Vista when they come out.
I for one have been folowing the progress of KDE since its 2.0 days and all I can say is they do an amazing job. Yeah, I agree, it always used a lot more memory than the Windows Explorer shell but I bet you would never notice that if you were not with you eyes on the memory gauge. And I can bet you that in the unlikely event some component in KDE crashes, you don't need to restart.
I run KDE 3.5_beta1 on Gentoo right now and have had no issues with it in 3 days usage. This includes desktop, file manager, instant messaging, mail, address book, calendar etc.
All I can say: KDE developers, keep up the good work!
I think a more relevant question would be "what kernel would be best for games"?
When it comes to games, your distro is only as good as your kernel. The fact that Cedega runs better on Suse or Gentoo is determined, IMHO by two things:
1. what services you have running -- you cannot play Doom 3 smoothly and serve 100 web pages/s. Many people leave on the defaults so this might be a distro aspect.
2. how good your CPU and I/O schedulers are -- this depends on your kernel flavour. --P