I have been using KDE 4.1 for sometime now on Fedora 9. Prior to that, i have used both Kde and Gnome on Ubuntu.
So which is better? Which one wins the game? Well i am sure there would be a lot of blogs, articles etc abt kde vs gnome.
The applications/tools i use most often are:
1. mutt + getmail + postfix : For Sending/Receiving IMAP mails
2. Firefox : To Surf the Net
3. Amarok: Listen to Music
4. xchat-gnome : For IRC
5. Pidgin : Chat client for ST/gtalk/yahoo
6. IBM proprietary stuff like Notes, WECM etc
7. VLC Media Player: For watching movies.
8. For almost everything else, the Konsole, i.e the command line.
Over the past couple of (busy) months, i have realized it doesn't really matter which Desktop environment i use, as long as
these applications work fine for me; and these applications do work fine for me in either settings.
Yes, KDE 4.1 has the new jazzy plasma desktop and GNOME has its own Compiz-Beryl features. I have never used them
and surely do not need them. They are cool "candy-floss" features though, but surely not useful.
So which is better? Which one wins the game? Well i am sure there would be a lot of blogs, articles etc abt kde vs gnome.
The applications/tools i use most often are:
1. mutt + getmail + postfix : For Sending/Receiving IMAP mails
2. Firefox : To Surf the Net
3. Amarok: Listen to Music
4. xchat-gnome : For IRC
5. Pidgin : Chat client for ST/gtalk/yahoo
6. IBM proprietary stuff like Notes, WECM etc
7. VLC Media Player: For watching movies.
8. For almost everything else, the Konsole, i.e the command line.
Over the past couple of (busy) months, i have realized it doesn't really matter which Desktop environment i use, as long as
these applications work fine for me; and these applications do work fine for me in either settings.
Yes, KDE 4.1 has the new jazzy plasma desktop and GNOME has its own Compiz-Beryl features. I have never used them
and surely do not need them. They are cool "candy-floss" features though, but surely not useful.
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2 comments:
i agree with u...the applications matter...but i think KDE needs to get a bit more stable and start regular releases...but then is does have the advantage of being cross platform...u ever tried it on windows??
KDE 4 has gotten quite stable over the last couple of months. Btw, What is Windows ? :)
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