Desktop Environment / Window Manager Preference/Comparison Thread

[panickedthumb]

[tho when im video editing I would love to go shell only... bu then again, I would not see what i'm doing lol ].

Now if someone could pull off a CLI video editor I would be a very happy man It's POSSIBLE with the framebuffer-- On the System Rescue CD, QTParted runs cli though the framebuffer.

[bored2k]

Now if someone could pull off a CLI video editor I would be a very happy man It's POSSIBLE with the framebuffer-- On the System Rescue CD, QTParted runs cli though the framebuffer.

That's cool ... im guessing some of Hiren's Disc also run that way.


Wow u just made my drool ... avidemux on cli ... wow

[Slapdash]

I thought I liked KDE until I REALLY found Gnome.

I love Gnome now.
It's clean, its lean, its a true windows managing machine!


There is a learning curve due to its different "thinking style" to MS Windows and KDE

[bored2k]

I thought I liked KDE until I REALLY found Gnome.

I love Gnome now.
It's clean, its lean, its a true windows managing machine!


There is a learning curve due to its different "thinking style" to MS Windows and KDE

thats the main probs with ppl straight from redmond, but thats what were looking for right ? a change .

I have to say tho i had been using lynx, but some1 here pointed out elinks, and im at the point where i would just go shell and 4get bout pictures and gui and everything

Gnome = Great

eLinks + mp3blaster + screen + nano = Viewtiful.

[landotter]

So if you drive a Citroen with a shifter in the dashboard for many years and trade it in for a Ford you then complain that Ford's incorrectly put the shifter in the floor?

My cousins who begged me to install Linux were the same way: it was "wrong to not have just a "start button" on the bottom left. It as wrong to not have trash on the desktop. It was wrong to not have a bunch of launchers on the desktop and not a nicely organized menu...

Brainwashed is what that is.

It's still so much like windows it's rediculous--how hard can it really be to adapt--it's not like it's something more obscure like Enlightenment or a *box window manager.

There's a clicky place to find your programs. There's a toolbar to put launchers on. A window list, clock, and volume applet finish the deal.

Oh, that's right, they're in different places. Oy.

Bloody sheep.

Do people really want their intelligence insulted by a crappy windows copy?

Yes?

Then Lycoris, or Xandros might be your bag. They're not bad distros--but I do find their UI to be insulting.

If you're too dumb to drag some toolbars around to your liking in Gnome, then stick with windows. Really. I don't mean to be insulting--but if you think that everybody needs to copy poor design to make it palatable to tha masses, then you're entitled to that opinion--and I'll feel entitled to laugh at it.

Baaaah.

[bored2k]

So if you drive a Citroen with a shifter in the dashboard for many years and trade it in for a Ford you then complain that Ford's incorrectly put the shifter in the floor?

My cousins who begged me to install Linux were the same way: it was "wrong to not have just a "start button" on the bottom left. It as wrong to not have trash on the desktop. It was wrong to not have a bunch of launchers on the desktop and not a nicely organized menu...

Brainwashed is what that is.

It's still so much like windows it's rediculous--how hard can it really be to adapt--it's not like it's something more obscure like Enlightenment or a *box window manager.

There's a clicky place to find your programs. There's a toolbar to put launchers on. A window list, clock, and volume applet finish the deal.

Oh, that's right, they're in different places. Oy.

Bloody sheep.

Do people really want their intelligence insulted by a crappy windows copy?

Yes?

Then Lycoris, or Xandros might be your bag. They're not bad distros--but I do find their UI to be insulting.

If you're too dumb to drag some toolbars around to your liking in Gnome, then stick with windows. Really. I don't mean to be insulting--but if you think that everybody needs to copy poor design to make it palatable to tha masses, then you're entitled to that opinion--and I'll feel entitled to laugh at it.

Baaaah.

Yeah , mostly everywone on Redmong Hell Gates are just not willing to learn nor be teached. They complain about v!rus and spyware and the OS getting noticeable slower session after session, yet they're still attached to it and refuse to use anything else.

I still don't get them , it's like they think Linux or anything else aims to be a "Clone War" copy of XP with the annoyances removed . C'mon! "the start button on the bottom left" ?! It's almost as barbaric as someone refusing to use firefox because the hotmail toolbar wont show...

edit >> Yes i recently tried Xandros v3 and Oh boy, in less than 2 hours I was doing "apt-get install gnome gdm; apt-get remove kdm" [in Xandros, if you even dare deleting KDE, you're getting Pwn3d.]

[KiwiNZ]

Ummmm is KDE locked down ?????????
hmmm I customise to heck and back .

[bored2k]

Ummmm is KDE locked down ?????????
hmmm I customise to heck and back .

We know it's not locked, but 1st impression do counts. The minute i login 2 KDE and I see its general layout, reminding me of the Oh so wasted 10yrs on Redmond Camp, my brain goes


And btw, if you have tried Xandros, you would know the best thing you could do is not mess with its layout. Its super duper uglier than any KDE I might whine about, and that is REALLY -almost- locked .

[jdonnell]

I'm a long time Suse/kde user and have recently started using ubuntu/gnome a little. I'm typing this from suse/kde now

Here are my thoughts. I like gnome better, but I find konqueror much nicer than nautilus. However, I LOVE some of the kde apps like k3b and kate. The combination of kate and vim is the perfect development environment for me (I do php/python all day).

At this point I'm not sure which way I'm going to go. I love the ubuntu philosophy and community, I love apt-get, and in general I like gnome better than kde. However, Suse is a well polished distro (minus the community/philosophy part) and I am addicted to kde apps like kate. And I use kate all day so a good replacement is necessary. I'm trying out scite and eclipse and hopefully one of them will be good enought

[kevanf1]

I'm quite frankly amazed at the seeming hatred towards either Gnome or KDE. I have stated elsewhere that I prefer KDE but I can use Gnome - I have to with Ubuntu until I get around to installing KDE instead. But all this talk of KDE being overwhelming? It's called choice in my book. You choose what you want to use and are happy with then simply clear the rest off the menu or even off your PC. It's easy With Gnome you don't really have much choice. You accept what it put on there unless you are able to add new stuff. Not everybody has that capability don't forget.

Whatever, it's Linux, enjoy it