Author Topic: Any KDE users out there? (Read 4460 times)

ch_123 · « **on:** Mon, 22 March 2010, 17:56:17 »

When I started using Linux full time, I used KDE 3.5 which I found to be much nicer than the GNOME releases of the time. Like many others, I went off it after the disastorous KDE 4.0 release... But around January I got tired of GNOME and decided to retry KDE, which was at version 4.3 (now 4.4) and found it to be very stable, feature rich, and having very good apps that were tightly integrated with eacother. There's a great browser for it called Rekonq, which is still in the early beta stages, but is like a KDE version of Chrome. Over all, I find it a more polished experience than GNOME.

kishy · « **Reply #1 on:** Mon, 22 March 2010, 18:20:31 »

I'm really not a *nix user, but for the times when I do use Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora being the limits of my experience), I'll take KDE over GNOME any day.

GNOME I find looks too toylike, perhaps childish. KDE has a bit more of the "Windows Classic" thing going on*.

* Obviously my comparisons are based on what I know and like, which is the pre-Vista/7 Windows GUI. XP's Luna can be un-toyified with settings.

bigpook · « **Reply #2 on:** Mon, 22 March 2010, 18:21:24 »

I started with KDE and stayed up to 3.5. By then I was looking for something different, and simpler. Hence the switch to Gnome. I have played with the latest KDE in Fedora, Kubuntu, Suse and Mint and it does look like they have come along way.

I still prefer Gnome though. Its stupid simple to use, has all of the cool bling that compiz has to offer and overall, it just works for me. No knock on KDE though. Its all personal pref and I am glad that linux users have the ability to make their own choices.
Lets not forget XFCE, OpenBox and the rest.
Being able to choose is a good thing.

ch_123 · « **Reply #3 on:** Mon, 22 March 2010, 18:27:48 »

KDE 4 has it's own inbuilt compiz equivalent. I had absolutely no luck getting Compiz running with Arch under GNOME (very odd given that I used to use Beryl with KDE 3.5 back in the day) so it's nice to have one fully built into the DE.

The simplicity thing is a subject of debate. GNOME users will tell you that KDE is over complicated. KDE users will tell you that GNOME is over-dumbed down. Awesome/Openbox users will say that it's a retard duel anyway, and they're probably right.

HaaTa · « **Reply #4 on:** Mon, 22 March 2010, 18:34:21 »

I was a heavy KDE user up until around Fedora 9 (used Fedora 9 too). At that point I was having to back-port too many packages to Fedora 8 (ATI Catalyst was being royally annoying, and not being released for the upgraded Xorg at the time).
Then I switched to Arch on a suggestion of a coworker, started using Awesome, and never looked back (mostly for the ease of rebuilding packages, and creating your own).

Gnome always irked me the wrong way. Always had to customize it a lot to get it the way I liked.

cryticfarm · « **Reply #5 on:** Mon, 22 March 2010, 18:35:25 »

real men use awesome and openbox
or if your hardcore you use wmii

HaaTa · « **Reply #6 on:** Mon, 22 March 2010, 19:53:51 »

Lol, I really only switched from wmii to awesome for the painless multi monitor setup.

platon · « **Reply #7 on:** Mon, 22 March 2010, 21:08:12 »

GNOME 4 Life !

pikapika · « **Reply #8 on:** Tue, 23 March 2010, 07:24:12 »

e17 (enlightenment) is nice, but still in development

i was a kde user, but it's been 4/5 years i haven't used it, last time i tried (something like 4.2), i was a little lost and found it a bit heavy

bigpook · « **Reply #9 on:** Tue, 23 March 2010, 07:33:11 »

I just spun up a box with mint running KDE4.something and it looks pretty. It doesn't seem heavy to me but I am running on it on a 2.8 dual core AMD with 4G of RAM.
It looks like windows vista to me.....

porgo · « **Reply #10 on:** Tue, 23 March 2010, 11:12:45 »

I like KDE 3.5 a lot, Gnome too. But after the KDE 4 bounced around I've developed hatred towards all DEs. KDE 4 is slow, bloated and unnecessarily massive. It's the Vista of KDE releases.

Me, I've always used Fluxbox for main WM. Recently I moved to XMonad which I find very, very satisfactory. Ion3 and Awesome both have issues Xmonad doesn't have. And if you're like me and don't like scripting Lua much, Xmonad with pure haskell configurations is the way to go. Haskell's so fun to use even though I couldn't tell every bit of syntax by heart. There are good guides to Xmonad around.

But quite honestly a traditional layered window manager such as Fluxbox or Openbox would fulfill my needs very well. But a full blown DE, never for me!

Manyak · « **Reply #11 on:** Tue, 23 March 2010, 11:32:22 »

Yeah I used to use KDE, but switched after 3.something. Not really for any reason except I that wanted to try Gnome. Then by the time I decided to switch back KDE had turned to crap.

So now I use Gnome primarily, and I'm going to be setting up my netbook with FLWM.

iMav · « **Reply #12 on:** Thu, 25 March 2010, 03:25:46 »

For the longest time, I carted around the last source code release of FVWM v.1 because I had it customized the way I liked it and didn't want to change (this was back in the 90's). I used enlightenment for a while (which has been "in development" for decades now) and then settled on some minimalist WM's when I ran gentoo exclusively. I use gnome quite a bit now simply because I've standardized on Ubuntu for my desktop installs...but I do play with KDE now and again and have been impressed.

ricercar · « **Reply #13 on:** Thu, 25 March 2010, 15:05:58 »

Is KDE or Gnome the default UI on Fedora core?

kishy · « **Reply #14 on:** Thu, 25 March 2010, 15:22:48 »

Quote from: ricercar;166828

Is KDE or Gnome the default UI on Fedora core?

Should be KDE (I found it was, I dunno if they vary it from build to build though?)

ch_123 · « **Reply #15 on:** Thu, 25 March 2010, 15:28:40 »

Quote from: ricercar;166828

Is KDE or Gnome the default UI on Fedora core?

GNOME

and get with the times man - they got rid of the 'core' bit about 7 releases ago!

kishy · « **Reply #16 on:** Thu, 25 March 2010, 16:19:01 »

Quote from: ch_123;166837

GNOME

and get with the times man - they got rid of the 'core' bit about 7 releases ago!

Hmmmmm.

I'll have to consult with my Linux I professor and find out why ours is KDE (may very well be his preference, he set up the VM he gave us all).

ch_123 · « **Reply #17 on:** Thu, 25 March 2010, 16:24:34 »

It's easy to install one over the other, it's just that (afaik) a completely default install will give GNOME.

Which version of KDE is it running? KDE 3.5 was far more reliable than GNOME if memory serves me right.

ricercar · « **Reply #18 on:** Thu, 25 March 2010, 18:00:11 »

Quote from: ch_123;166837

and get with the times man - they got rid of the 'core' bit about 7 releases ago!

Maybe I should change my name to RedHat, and complain whenever anyone posts about a Linux more modern than RHEL 3, which predates the whole Fedora CORE thang. Nah, too much effort. Microsoft Windows knows I love him.

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I've always used the default UI installed by Red Hat, be it KDE or GNOME. I never got any motivation to explore the alternate default (nor to download others).

kishy · « **Reply #19 on:** Thu, 25 March 2010, 18:09:46 »

Quote from: ch_123;166859

It's easy to install one over the other, it's just that (afaik) a completely default install will give GNOME.

Which version of KDE is it running? KDE 3.5 was far more reliable than GNOME if memory serves me right.

I don't have it in front of me and can't be bothered to install VMware presently...will try to get back to you next time I've got access to it.

Edit: I'm a dumbass (or gullible, or something like that). I was told we were using KDE, but a quick Googling proves it's GNOME.

This completely changes my opinion of GNOME based on my previous experiences with it, because I really like what we work with in class.

This means I've probably never actually used KDE...

HaaTa · « **Reply #20 on:** Thu, 25 March 2010, 18:17:24 »

Gnomes always been the default in Fedora. Though their KDE support has been very good (haven't tried since 10 mind you).
Minus the buggy mess of KDE that was in Fedora 9 (eventually fixed up by the end of its life by package updates), the KDE support in Fedora has been very good.

HaaTa · « **Reply #21 on:** Thu, 25 March 2010, 18:45:41 »

Now where's my explosives.

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