My feeling is that Gnome might, in fact, be more popular these days thanks to the popularity of Ubuntu (as Ian said). I also agree that a few years ago, the majority of Cluggers were using KDE, but now that Aaron moved to Vancouver, it is finally safe to admit your secret Gnome fetishes.
Personally, I started using Gnome when I started using Linux (circa ~2001). This was because KDE 1 reminded me too much of Windows, the system I was trying desperately to get away from. I gave the subsequent versions of KDE a try, but always switched back to Gnome. While the early versions of KDE 4 were particularly bad, I decided to give Kubuntu a try when I got a new laptop last fall. In December I moved and a lack of space has meant that I have not setup my desktop, so I do use KDE exclusively now. Having said that, I think both are solid desktop offerings and I feel comfortable working in either environment. I also have an idea for driving traffic to the CLUG website. Why not setup a poll so we can get a larger sample. I suspect this would be pretty easy to do in Drupal. My thoughts, Jesse On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:46 PM, : robert-william : lewko <[email protected]>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 >
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