On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 21:50 -0500, David Curry wrote: > Phil Labonte 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? > > > > > > > > > I have tried both on RH7.1, RH8, FC2. KDE behaved differently than > Gnome on the latter two OSes. On a system with one CD-ROM and one > CD-RW, Gnome handles both drives appropriately. On the other hand, when > I boot into a KDE desktop session, I am unable to mount either device. > So, I use the Gnome desktop which appears to play nice with a number of > KDE apps I use. ---- this is so entirely absurd who cares which one everybody uses? The GNOME and KDE are heavily modified from the original distributions anyway - it makes it hard to tell which you're using and intentionally blurs the distinctions between the two. There's not supposed to be much difference between them - purposely - at least as shipped by RHEL/Fedora Craig