On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Farrell Woods wrote:
> George Sullivan wrote:
> >
> > I am kind of a newbie and I have run into the following problem:
> > I am running Red Hat Linux 6.2 using the Gnome desktop and enlightenement
> > logged in as root.
> ...
> > Does anyone have any thoughts on a solution to this problem.
>
> Well, if you're new to this then perhaps you've not yet chosen a
> favorite desktop/window mangler. If you have no particular affinity
> to Gnome (the default under RH) then I would very much encourage
> you to take a look at KDE.
>
> I was using Gnome/Enlightenment for a while, but recently switched. The reasons
> I switched were:
>
> o KDE runs much, much faster
>
> o its performance doesn't degrade if I leave myself logged in for
> days at a time (with Gnome/Enlightenment I'd periodically have
> to log out and log back in again to regain some semblance
> of performance: switching desktops would take several seconds
> otherwise.)
>
> o KDE's apps seem less prone to leaving core files kicking around
>
> Gnome/Enlightenment offer better eye candy, IMO. But I'll trade that away
> for the better performance and robustness of KDE any day.
>
At the risk of starting an emacs/vi type war - which version of Gnome?
I've found the current helix version very stable. Performance using
Sawfish (the now default wm) is very good. Nice thing about Unix
philosophy - many little pieces working together.
I agree that some apps seem to die, leaving core, but it seems more
related to the age of the program (new, 0.1.0 releases have a nasty
tendency to be unstable). Older ones (such as Abiword & gnumeric) are
actually quite stable (those are my default wp & spreadsheet).
Although the new KDE 2.0 is changing it, I found that KDE looked too
much like windows (i.e. all the things I hated about windows I hated
about KDE). Also, Gnome doesn't have the licensing conflicts that KDE
does (even the new Open Source QT).
jeff
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