Both MDK 8.1 & 8.2 come with KDE 2. A great improvement over KDE 1 it had some strange bugs with getting slower and slower as time went on. After about 3 months of using it there is a noticeable slow down. KDE 3 seems faster and does not have this problem but the install of KDE3 for MDK 8.x tends to break things. It is a workable install, I am running MDK 8.2 with KDE 3 and it is great but there where a lot of configuration issues that needed to be worked at.
MDK 9.0 comes with a much improved kernel and KDE 3. I have tried MDK 9.0 and found it to be great except for development. I upgraded my wife's computer to MDK 9.0 and found it is using about 2 MB less RAM then 8.2, mostly because of the kernel.
I am running Gnome 1.4 that comes with MDK 8.2 now on my MDK 8.2 system and find it to be much much faster then KDE 2 or 3. There are many things about Gnome 1 that are very annoying, but I have to give it a chance before I go back to KDE 3. MDK 9.0 comes with Gnome 2 and has many great new features but still hangs on to the things I don't like about Gnome 1. Gnome 2 is faster then KDE 2 or 3. KDE 2 & 3 have a great selection of eye candy and I will be switching back to KDE 3 after I have learned more about Gnome.
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:44, Patrick (Pat) Davis wrote:
Hey, Clugers. First, sorry about posting a personal response to the whole board, The other groups to which I belong only post back to the board when I hit "Reply to all" but this is set up differently. I shall try to do better. As soon as I get about three clear and free hours I'll have a go at the Mandrake 8.1 install, but I have another question. I was going to use KDE as the desktop, mainly because I'd heard more about it, but I realize the publicity isn't everything- as evinced by Evil Uncle Bill's OS. So, from your own perspectives which is better, KDE or Gnome... or is it just a case of what one is used to? TIA for the advice pat
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