On 31 July 2017 at 12:27, Evan Leibovitch via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > For about the mid-nineties to the late aughts, I was a heavy-duty KDE fan. > The integration and customization was what I needed, it was good looking and > functional. > > Then it started getting more bloated and slower, seemingly outpacing the > increases in CPU speed and decreases in RAM cost. Or maybe it was just the > Kubuntu implementation. But I found that it wasn't working for me. So I > experimented for a while. Yech. > > I found GNOME to be something of soap opera that required a whole set of > sub-choices (GNOME 2? GNOME 3? Mate? Unity? WTF?). My first GNOME > experiences (with the default position of icons moved from the sensible > bottom to the left) seemed more like an exercise in social engineering (ie, > what the devs wanted dumb users to do) rather than any real attempt to make > my computer less intrusive in the path to doing Real Stuff. > > And then I discovered Linux Mint and its wonderful little Cinnamon desktop. > Yeah I know it's gtk based and has big chunks of GNOME in it, but its > look-and-feel seems less ... disruptive. It's served me well for much of > this decade. > > But I still miss KDE. So I've been having another look. I've been reading > that prefer the Linux Mint version over Kubuntu, and that it's still big but > now much speedier. > > I know it's technically possible to have both KDE and Cinnamon physically > installed on my Mint desktop. But I've also been reading that the two > systems are so different in default ways of doing things that switching > between them is an invitation for grief that will bork things. Most of the > forum stuff I've read says that it's much cleaner to do a reinstall. > > Has anyone else here played with systems that can casually switch between > KDE/Qt and GNOME/gtk? Is anyone here using current KDE?
This doesn't answer your question. That said, it may be of interest given your reasons for leaving KDE. There's a group of people who created a fork of KDE when it went to version 4 because they thought KDE 3 was better. It's called "Trinity:" http://trinitydesktop.org/ -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
