On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:55:47 -0500 Phil Labonte <plabonte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have been using Gnome with Fedora since Core1 > I have loaded and used KDE just to check it out... > My question is this to the list of experienced users; > What is better for use as a Desktop system; KDE or Gnome? That's a question that only you can really answer, since both Gnome and KDE do about the same thing from an end user's point of view. I use Gnome, at the moment, because I use mostly Gnome applications and/or applications using the GTK toolkit. So it makes sense for me to use the Gnome desktop, since I'll have a lot of that stuff loaded into memory ANYWAY. The olny complaint I really have about the Gnome environment is the default window manager (metacity) is too brain-dead for my tastes - in particular the way it handles small screens (like you would find on a subnotebook) and large windows. You can't drag a window off the TOP of the screen so you can get at buttons on the bottom. This severely hampers usability on subnotebooks. If you like/use a lot of KDE applications, then it probably makes more sense for you to use KDE. The bottom line: Use whicever one you like best. :) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Charles Taylor <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Chemistry instructor / Mad scientist / Linux enthusiast! -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------
