On Sunday 03 July 2005 18:30, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 16:03 +0100, Peter Hunter wrote:
When I first tried Gnome I didn't like it. I loaded Gnome 2.6 'by mistake' on Suse 9.2 prof. and started to like it. So, when I installed 9.3 I decided to run gnome 2.10 as my main desktop and I really like it.
I'd be interested to hear other peoples comments as I am still very new to Linux.
I have often heard it said that KDE is more familiar to people coming from Windows. not sure how true that is.
Recently I have installed Ubuntu running Gnome onto my home machine that was running SuSE 9.1 and KDE. I did it for a change.
As I have said in other posts initially I felt like Gnome was a step backwards. But gradually that feeling has passed and I quite like it now.
To get the most consistent user interface I always try to run apps built for the same toolkit. So when I was on SuSE/KDE I tried to use mostly QT apps or the KDE apps (Kmail Konqueror Knode etc) and now I am trying to move over to GTK apps (Evolution, Galeon "whatever the Gnome equiv of Knode is")
Certainly Evolution is a better mail client than Kmail.
There are exceptions to this, amaroK is a lot better than RhythmBox and for anything other than dumping plain files on CD's I prefer to use k3b rather than the Nautilus built in CD burner.
Traditionally Gnome on SuSE was a bit of an afterthought and nowhere near as polished as the KDE SuSE Desktop. But since Novell bought SuSE the Gnome option has been taken more seriously.
At the end of the day it's totally down to personal preference. There are valid arguments either side of the fence and the only thing to do is keep trying the alternatives in case the grass really is greener. That was the whole reason I took SuSE off this machine to try something else for a while.
Interesting that. I found Evolution to be much better than Kmail. I also find that (as far as I can tell) K3B is the only decent burner for anything other than basic stuff.
I can agree with you about KDE being easy for Windows users, however, I hardly used Windows as my main computer was the Mac. I have to have a Windows setup at the moment as I have one program - that I can't de without - that won't run under WINE. It's a DataBase Library that installs from the CD onto the hard drive. It only works in Windows. I tried installing it into wine when I was running Suse 9.2 but it wouldn't work.
Unlike you I haven't been around Linux long enough to get used to (or fed up with!) any flavour of linux yet, so I'll stick with 9.3 for now seeing as the time it took to download and install. Mind you, I have just donwloaded and installed ubentu 5.04 onto the P3 machine (I'll use that for experimenting). It was strange seeing a 'non-gui' installer, but still very easy and straight forward. I was impressed with the speed that it installed. The thing that struck me the most, and I guess I'll get used to this as I install more varieties of Linux, is that - although it also uses Gnome 2.10 - Gnome on Ubuntu is a lot different from Gnome on Suse.
So, I'll keep having fun and playing. So far I feel that Linux is streets ahead of MS Windows, and easily as good as Mac OS X.
Peter
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