On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Mike Cathey wrote:
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->KDE is seriously over featured in my opinion. And E is very heavy on
->the system. Gnome's session panel is extremely annoying. Windowmaker
->is light enough on my system to run decently (450 w/128mb ram). And it
->doesn't crash at all if you compile it yourself. As far as the
->applications, what is wrong with having both sets of libs on your box
->and running either?
->Heh...I hope I don't start a flame war....
*** I'm glad to know other people think KDE is over-kill. But that would
be an opinion of a over fanatic, hard-core Linux user like me. The
philosophy of KDE being however to facilitate the step from Windows to
Linux for new users I think they're doing a very good job. A well equipped
and over stuffed start menu, 3.000 different proggies to manage anything
you want to manage on your system even the things you still don't know
you are going to want to manage, it needs ages to boot, it's a memory hog,
it's still buggy and unstable and it keeps you busy. Especially when you
want to do something simple and you don't remember anymore in which sub,
sub, sub, sub, sub menu you have to look to do it.
It's giving me a headache too, but I stopped swallowing aspirine; I'm
using WindowMaker instead. Amazingly stable for a ver. 0.61 and pretty:
Nobody can deny the beauty of the icons. It's pretty simple to configure
too. And no, I'm not starting a flame war. I'm using some GNOME progs in
WindowMaker and it works very well. Nothing against that; It would even be
nonsense not to do it.
I'm not a KDE fan but anybody with less than 1 year of Linux experience
will have KDE installed by me on his box. And as a door opener of the
very closed Micro$oft market, it's certainly a superb product.
Cheers!
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Mailed with Linux & Pine...
"As Microsoft moves further and further from its core, it starts to run into
competitors who
are extremely good at what they do, know their domains a lot better than Microsoft,
and are
extremely proactive. Companies like Sun and IBM and Oracle don't just roll over and
die."
--Michael Borrus, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
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