On Saturday 16 Aug 2014 17:13:29 behrouz khosravi wrote: > Hi. I have been using the gnome for some time(in other distro's) and I > had no complaint. However after switching to gentoo I installed i3 and > it is very great. > I really love it, but I was considering to install a DE too. > Before jumping to gnome I wanted to evaluate my options. > I have heard that " It is a matter of taste" but think it is not all > of the story. > I have heard that the gentoo community is more inclined toward KDE > too. So KDE must have some advantage that makes people like it's > taste! > So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE and not > the other options ? > thanks.
I use Enlightenment (e17) almost exclusively these days, having spent many years running a heavily modified Fluxbox. I prefer e17 because it probably is even more light footed than fluxbox, but more modern in look and feel, without the need to manually configure everything. A few gadgets on the desktop, favourite apps launched by right click menu and my personal choice of wallpapers and shelf configuration, is all I needed to change from the default set up. On a couple of PCs mostly used by other users, I have installed KDE, because it is better suited to their needs. They want/like/use a lot of plasmoids and don't mind waiting longer for the desktop to launch. They are also keen on the many KDE applications. I preferred KDE3 to the current KDE4 with its semantic desktop and KDEPIM slow-speed-train-crash, but clearly I don't have an audience with current KDE devs to expect them to listen to my desires. :p I have used briefly Gnome and the Cinnamon desktop on Linux Mint and Ubuntu's Unity, but I didn't appreciate any of them. Probably a matter of personal taste I guess, Gnome and derivatives never sat comfortably with me. Somehow I found that their settings were a bit obscure or removed from the end user. XFCE, LXDE and openbox were lightweight and fast, but for the little I tried them out I found them somewhat depleted of features and functionality. Perhaps if I persevered I would have grown to like them more. So, it's e17 for me, but YMMV. :-) -- Regards, Mick
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