KDE or GNOME Poll?
 

Just curious as to what BBF'ers on Linux are using...

Not a debate as to which is better... Personally I do not like KDE and have always used GNOME..

Please vote! :)

Kris

I have Gnome and KDE on my Debian, but 98% of the time I use Gnome!
I love the look and feel of Gnome, but also I'm a big fan of some KDE apps (that I use on Gnome) like Kopete, Kate, Amarok and K3B.

I've tried KDE a few times, but always come back to Gnome.

The best of both worlds.... You know you can use them apps in gnome?

Kris

I started with KDE back in the days of RedHat 6 and 7, and later migrated to Gnome which is what I primarily use today, although I do have to say that I like LXDE and really enjoy OpenBox, especially when it is the desktop behind one of my favorite lightweight Linux distros, #!CrunchBang.

yeah i have always used ubuntu and now i moved to linux mint where i have been for quite some time. but i always have an extra partition to try new distros. everytime i try kde i always want to go back to gnome.

None of the Above!

XFCE!

KDE every day. I started with gnome but quickly discovered kde's awesomeness and haven't looked back. I'm running kubuntu and windows 7 on my laptop, but considering flipping to fedora just to change things up a bit and really give red hat a shot

i like kde much better than gnome, i have always found gnome less intuitive to use, jmho

Just food for thought here but if you are happy with kubuntu you might consider sticking with it. Fedora is great but it's bleeding edge and a basic testing ground for RHEL..

I jump back and forth between Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSuse depending on who has the latest release... I always find my way back to ubuntu...

Kris

I'm no great fan of Gnome, but its soooo much better than KDE. Every release or so, I go an check to see if KDE still sucks...and yep, it sure does. In fact, I think its getting worse. I wish they would drop KDE support and stop Kubuntu development.

If SuSE went Gnome, I think I might think about switching. ;)

Gnome on openSuse rocks! Just download the gnome version... The menu is a bit different than standard Gnome but I think you will like...

Kris

Yes, but then you get horrible inconsistencies in how some of the apps work in terms of key sequences etc. It can help at times however, but personally I stick with Gnome most of the time. Well, actually a hybrid of XMonad and Gnome-Session.

Can I pencil in "I need a bourbon, a scotch and a beer"?

i'm shocked people don't like console =/

I keep jumping back on to the gnome-wagon. I do not know what it is about kde and I can't quite put my finger on why I dislike it. I'm also fiddling around with the Enlightenment desktop environment also; E17 is quite nice.

I use Ubuntu Hardy Heron (currently) and have checked out a variety of desktop shells but always come back to Gnome ;-)

couldnt have said it better myself so ill just quote you (kontact <3 but gnome 4life)
 

Well Said

I've been using kde since the late 90's and I still use it on my note books but since the kde 4.x fiasco I've switched my main desktop machine to ubuntu 9.04 with gnome although I still use some kde apps such as konqueror, digiKam, ksnapshot, konsole, kate, kcalc & krdc.

On my notebooks I run OpenSUSE 10.3 with KDE 3.5 and on the newer one OpenSUSE 11.1 with KDE 4.1 (what a pain that is).

gnome isn't perfect but I think it's a more natural way of working that kde 4.x

I still like kde 3.5 better than gnome but I've managed to get my desktop under Ubuntu to work sort of like kde 3.5 (more or less, kind of...) so I'm content.

KDE 4 was / is a disaster... I hope Gnome does not make the same mistake in gnome 3...

Check out screenshots of gnome 3 in the link below... If this is what they are shooting for, I will be greatly disappointed!!!!

GnomeShell/Screenshots - GNOME Live!

Kris

Holy frijoles batman!

As long as that's only in the 'overlay mode' and not in the 'looks and works the way I want it mode' then who cares.

Vista was a disaster. kde 4 was a disaster. Anybody see a pattern here? Where are they getting their developers from?

Well, if gnome 3 follows the other 2, there's always Xfce.

I hate change but I love progress.

My Linux development machine runs Kubuntu mainly because I like Konsole and Konqueror. I've been watching gnome development ever since it was released in response to KDE. I personally don't see the attraction of gnome, but I understand many do prefer gnome so more power to them.

Lately I've been using Netbeans IDE for java/c++/ruby/various. I have used code::blocks, Eclipse, emacs, and vim with good success.

For my appliance-like devices I tend to run something lightweight, like XFCE, blackbox or fluxbox.

Emacs AND vim ?

Wow ....

I hear that scotty.

KDE. Like more the feel. But like gnome is so sloooow.
I really like enlightment, and xfce.

AMEN!

Gnome is much faster than KDE.

I voted GNOME, but use neither. JWM manages all of my boxes :) .

KDE since 1999

Winner! Well, at least I'm using XFCE too...

Never been a big fan of xfce.... It's really not all that much faster than gnome and it's mainly used on older (slower) boxes... If you have a newer box you are killing yourself by using xfce in my opinion...

Voted for KDE. However, have Ubuntu loaded on same system, along with Mepis, and do use Gnome when I feel like Ubuntu'ing.8-)

Mine's older, but it still does what I want from it. And I'd rather buy tools than computer hardware:D

gnome seems a little bit more polished than kde, however some apps on kde look great. but gnome with linux mint is a gouge full of eye candy.

KDE is more powerful, but GNOME is much more clean and streamlined.

I use GNOME on all my systems.

I've been on Ubuntu through various releases for past 5 years.

GNOME has always been the default interface because it's 'dumbed down' which is what "clean and streamlined" really means, IMHO. That makes it more "accessible" to Windoze refugees- not a bad thing really, but it would be better for folks to be a bit more adventurous. I always add the KDE interface on top of gnome, so the gnome apps are available, but I seldom use any.

As far as I'm concerned, ease-of-use always takes a back seat to detailed control. For example, I've never owned a car with automatic transmission, and so long as I have the physical ability to use it and they are still available, my car will always have a clutch.

As far as the shell or command line usage, it's no surprise that GNOME users shy away from it. I have been progressively using it more and more. Why wait for a gui app to boot, then rustle through various menus to do something, when you can just do a command string? Bingo, you're done.

$0.03
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I have tried a couple of times to use KDE (Kubuntu), but I always come back to GNOME. I believe it's simpler and more "steady" than KDE. OK, the KDE has more features, eyecandy, etc, but If you want to do your job easily, without crashes, etc, GNOME it's better I think.

And about eyecandy in Gnome, I have Compiz and it's awesome..!

Gnome all the fcking way.

I am waiting for a new computer to arrive… I am going to set it up to boot Windows and Linux. I am in the process of figuring out exactly what I want to do – how I want to partition the drives, etc. and what version of Linux I want…

I have maemo 5 OS on my other smartphone and ran into trouble flashing the firmware using Windows 7. Linux will give me more “opportunity” for that device.

This was really helpful thread… thanks for sharing your thoughts!:smile:

Sandy

Re: KDE or GNOME Poll?
 

Agreed (y)