Comments on: Why I prefer KDE over GNOME

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:53:43 +0000

Actually IceWM with a rox-filer pinboard is incredibly fast, efficient and visually pleasing. Install the right libraries and run KDE, Gnome, any kind of app you like.

By: Yashaprakasha

Yashaprakasha — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:38:01 +0000

‘Comfort’ for me also includes the feeling that (a) I know a lot about what is happening on my computer (b) I can adjust a lot on my computer. KDE seems to offer me more than GNOME does – starting already in everyday apps like Konqueror and KMail. GNOME is a bit too patronizing for my personal taste.

By: everythingzbetterinatux

everythingzbetterinatux — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:44 +0000

I like KDE over gnome as well. Overall KDE has a better history of stability , although there are good points to both. But alas, this is like beating a dead horse. To each his own, except gnome or kde both run better outta the box with Mepis then Ubuntu which lacks mp3 mpg and other codecs as well as tons of other essential features.

By: Swaroop C H

Swaroop C H — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:46:40 +0000

Sridhar: Finally, we agree on something

By: Sridhar Ratna

Sridhar Ratna — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:44:51 +0000

Guys! just stop, there has been already such wars/discussions related to this!

By: Swaroop C H

Swaroop C H — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:25:33 +0000

KDE wasn’t started for comfort. It was started to provide a desktop environment. That’s what the DE in KDE stands for.

By: Praveen A

Praveen A — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:22:03 +0000

A sidenote:

KDE was not free untill 2000 (Qt was not under GPL) [But that point does not hold anymore -- It is good that now we have two free (infact many more than 2) desktops]

Why Gnome rulz ?

KDE was started for comfort while Gnome for Freedom [It no more matters though, but we should have an idea of the history ]

See non-free libraries section in http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html

By: Praveen A

Praveen A — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:02:00 +0000

Well, I’m not starting a war again, but assembled some bits to say something like “why I like Gnome, also what are the merits of kde”. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glugc/message/122 Both are good desktop environments with its own features, some like it some doesn’t [there are many other desktops too]. I love KDE, when I don’t have Gnome and I won’t have to use Windows.

By: Swaroop C H

Swaroop C H — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:41:31 +0000

Pramod: KHTML is very good at rendering XHTML and standards-compliant websites, but not so good at the majority of the other sites

By: Pramod

Pramod — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:34:21 +0000

Even I love almost everything about KDE’s end user experience..now if only Konqueror would stop choking on half the websites out there ….