Originally Posted by
wallijonn
Ralph,
I also do not want to partake in a desktop war. But I will say that any perceived KDE bloat may not be because of KDE, per. se., but rather because of the distro.
When I install SuSE or Slackware I am given the opportunity to install just about every application under the Sun. So you could end up with Konqueror, Gideon, Mozilla and FireFox for browsers, KDEOffice, ABIWord and OpenOffice for write apps., 3 or 4 editors (Vim, Emacs, gedit, nano, pico, sed, etc.), 2 or 3 graphics programmes, 3 or 4 CD burning software programmes, ... etc. You get the idea.
While you can control it somewhat in SuSE, a newbie is more likely to install everything in Slackware. You are given three choices with RedHat but one may be tempted to install Workstation instead of Desktop or Server instead of Workstation. This could be considered bloat by many. And since KDE has better games, you just know that a lot of people installed them all.
I spent many hours deleting apps and libraries from SuSE whereas I spent many hours adding apps to Ubuntu. The difference is that I picked and chose as I went along, so I had more fun. I don't ever remember changing window themes, mouse pointers, icon themes or window borders with KDE. It came with Crystal Blue and that's basically all I ever used.
I loved KDE, but I outgrew it with Ubuntu.
If Hoary goes and integrates their web browser into the OS like Konqueror is integrated into KDE, chances are that I will never upgrade from Warty. I like my Fire Fox, tyvm, and do not what to change over to another browser. At this time.
For people who really do know KDE, though, KDE is probably faster than GNOME. Chances are your system isn't bloated with every app under the Sun.
I don't worry about such things when I have a P4 3 GHz processor and 2G of memory, though. Heck, it runs pretty darn well on my P1.5 with 512MB of mem. (As do most Linux distros). Yes, I just plainly prefer GNOME over KDE. To each his own. Choice is good. But I refuse to be converted back.
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