On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:27, Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis at gmail.com> wrote: > I haven't messed around with Gnome very much. I'm a KDE fan. I don't > if one is better than the other, I just prefer KDE - although when I > messed with Fedora and Ubuntu, I liked Gnome. But I generally go KDE. > Right now for playing I use a Lenovo S10 Netbook with Kubuntu > installed. Works fine. I popped on an external monitor, keyboard and > mouse so I can actually see things (the screen size is pretty small on > a Netbook, and my son broke the netbook screen twice by dropping the > darn thing!). Whether you chose Gnome or KDE, Ubuntu or openSuse (or > Mandriva or Fedora or ...) - you can do just fine. ?Just don't let > your kids toss it. That kind of hurts 'em a little bit.
I used to be a KDE fan, until I realized that almost all (Scribus being the sole exception) of what I personally consider "best of breed" apps are gtk+ based. At the time I switched to GNOME, I was operating under limited memory and couldn't justify having both qt and gtk+ libraries loaded and actively used so I switched. Now my machine has plenty RAM and I still use GNOME for the same reasons. Besides, KDE is no longer familiar to me. In the end, use what works for you. GNOME works for me. Okay, I actually prefer GNUstep Workspace, but just try and find native apps... -- Faster than a speeding slug! I'm Paraplegic Racehorse. http://web-log.paraplegicracehorse.net/ http://www.GlacierTaxicab.com/
