This is almost word for ward what I was going to write. I started using blackbox back in 98 I think it was, and back then on my much slower computer it was awesome, the extremely slim design made it run so much faster than anything else I could use. But to get things like working battery monitors, desktop pictures (for my girlfriend), and such it became a bit of a hassle. xfce though, works great, does what I want, and not a lot else. The one thing KDE does is provide several professional looking apps like K3B that seem to work well on any hardware I've tried them on, as opposed to gnome where some apps are awesome, and some look like I programmed them (not so awesome, childlike even).
-Doug On 9/29/05, Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I used to use Fluxbox and liked it very much. > > However after playing with the LiveCD, I discovered XFCE and this is now > my prefered wm, simply for look and feel really. It comes with a > filemanager (if you want to install it...) but it isn't that great > (read: intuative as I can't work out how to do certain things with it > and I hate reading manuals...). > > I tend to use regular commands (cp, ls etc...) and Midnight Commander > for file management. > > I agree with most about KDE (too big and too much like M$oft). I looked > at Gnome but after seeing how many packages/dependencies there were, I > gave up... I use linux to get away from windoze; not just to make > another one like it! > > Cheers > > Alan > > LFS ID: 216 > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
