Couldnt resist adding my 2p I prefer to spend my "configuring time" ie. admin on the Big picture eg. setting up mail, apache, firewall, ....... For the little things eg. desktop background one click icons to start daily apps and so on I am happy to let others give me a pleasent default.
So what this means for me is that I sort configs in a text editor of choice [Vim] and let the KDE team do all the rest for me. I have learnt that no matter how much you think you know about linux there are always 10 levels of detail lower that you dont know so spend time on the things you really care about rather than editing a long config in order to gain a font in a light window manager. for example, I want to download the latest Gentoo live CD via bittorrent [save the good peoples bandwidth] do I a) Go for a console bittornado client and spend some time learning the various flags/switchs in order to do this. b) Have a ready GUI client in KDE that is start, paste, wait. No thought required. Prehaps not a great example but the principle is there . Anyway long and short of this is that KDE fully bloated for me :] stu ps. I have noticed that on average with KDE running plus bagful of usual apps and daemons I have around 130 process's running with Gnome it used to be around 160, may not mean much I guess but just a small observation. pps.. oo oo forgot to say, nautilus chews the horses and knonqueror is lovely [even if I can never spell it correctly :P ] On 20/01/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:00:51 +0200, Paul wrote: > > > my findings with KDE is that its bloadware > > if I wanted bloat , I'd run windows > > > > Gnome-lite is just that , light > > So a small part of GNOME is less bloated than all of KDE? That's a > revelation! > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Life Support System Failure - Reboot Patient (Y/n)? > > > -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
