As an ex-windows user, I found Gnome fairly straightforward, and since I use it, I recommend it to those I set up so I can help them easily via GUI (I'm not very good in terminal!) The only other desktop my linux-using-friends use is XFCE. I don't think I know anyone personally who uses KDE. JME. Courtenay Watson Kamloops BC
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Dick Angus <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm all KDE and have been since almost the beginning of it. I tried Gnome > once or twice and found it exceedingly awkward. > > On March 23, 2010 07:46:59 pm : robert-william : lewko wrote: > > > Guys, I just saw a comment on lwn.net. The author was talking about a > > > function specific to okular (a KDE application) and one of the people > > > posting a comment said "If KDE wants to survive in a GNOME world they > > > better stop making fool decisions." > > > > > > What I wonder is this. Is Gnome the majority that this person > > > commenting says it is? When I do an informal pole of the people I > > > know who use Linux I probably have 5 friends who are solidly KDE, 1 > > > that uses Gnome and sometimes uses KDE applications and 1 that uses > > > Enlightenment and couldn't care less about having anything more > > > elaborate. > > > > > > IE, is this person who has posted a comment to this article really > > > based in reality? Is Gnome more popular? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > > -- > > An old mainframer getting current > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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