Comments on: Linux Mint 7 KDE Edition

By: Abhilash

Abhilash — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:40:44 +0000

You are right since a lot of people do love KDE. But the cleanliness of
Gnome is what draws me. KDE always seems to make me work harder to do the
general, daily computing, things.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:41:20 +0000

Quite funny, I think that KDE is a lot easier than Gnome, also fun to hack (C++/Qt is superior than C/GTK+). Gnome sometimes put too little options (or you need to use the gconf to change something - which really reminds of Windows).

IMHO, from the look and feel, KDE might look like Windows. But from technological perspective, I think Gnome really wants to duplicate a lot of Windows features (e.g: GConf, CORBA, and *cough* Mono). If I want to use MS technology (e.g. .Net), I'll just use Windows :p

I'm not a new user btw, I've seen KDE from version 1.x and Gnome also from version 1.x. So your claim that KDE is only for new user is simply not true :p

By: Abhilash

Abhilash — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:10:03 +0000

I agree. Features I needed to access weren't in the most logical places. I
couldn't find encryption and keyrings after looking for ages.

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:22:17 +0000

That is a coincidence. I too installed KDE a couple of days back with Debian instead of GNOME, which is what I usually use, just to see what the fuss was all about and frankly I haven't found anything in KDE that'll make me switch to it. The interface is flashier than GNOME but then if I want flashy I'll just use Windows (or OS X). I also noticed that I took longer (than GNOME) to do simple tasks with KDE.

I guess KDE 4.x is for the new converts who want all the flashyness while claiming that they're somehow cooler than the other kids because they're using LINUX.

GNOME it is for the rest of us then