Gnome vs. KDE
There so many of thos articles claimint this ones better (or the other one). Honestly: It’s stupid. They’re both good desktop environments. So her comes a review, claiming nothing but being unbiased (as far as possible):
I started with gnome ad I really liked it. The first thing I noticed, was how nice it looked. It was different to “M$DE” allright, with the “Start Menu” at the upper left corner. Configuration was easy (Desktop-> Preferences/Administration), startup of programms was fast (especially if you’re used to vista-times),…and I like Evolution, the mail PIM and IM programm of Gnome under Debian.
Abiword really impressed me after I had tried OpenOffice.org, which was incredibly slow. Abiword comes with everything you would expect from a text editing program, and it’s much faster than either OpenOffice.org or MS Office. Gnumeric Spreadsheet was..allright. There was only one thing I really missed: a MS OneNote alternative. So I searched the internet for one and ther I found this: BasKet Note Pads. Now, if your not familiar with KDE and Gnome: the capitalized K in BasKet immediately tells you, that this is a KDE program. Of course you can run KDE programs in a Gnome Environment but they’ll be much slower than so called native programs. So I removed Gnome and manually installed KDE on my Debian machine. BasKet was fast allright…but I didn’t like the look of KDE one bit! So I reinstalled my original Debian again and was happy with Gnome.
A few weeks later I stumpled upon BackTrack a security linux liveCD based on Slackware an KDE - and it was BEAUTIFULL!!! So I gave KDE another go…and installd Slackware 12 on my laptop - the full version with everything packed into it: 4gigs of space used - and worth it for now I knowm, that KWrite is not the KDE version of Abiword but of M$ Editor!
So now to KDE: I found Configuration a bit more difficult than in Gnome and what was split into different menus (Applications, Places and Desktop) there is here one menu. KDE is fast as well; in fact I wonder how people can say, Gnome ist that much faster or KDE is that much faster…One thing with KDE is really great though: KOffice. While Gnome Office seems to be nothing but Abiword and Gnumeric, KOffice consists of KWord, KSpread, KPresenterm Kexi, Kivio, Karbon14, Krita, KPlato, KChart, KFormula, Kugar, KOrganizer, KThesaurus, Kontact and KOffice Workspace (which is like a conrtol center for all of KOffice Programms) which is a full M$ Office-Suite (without Groove and OneNote). And than you have BasKet, which is almost irreplacable to me! Of course, if you have Gnome, you could still add BasKet as a startup programm with the option –start-hidden given (this option starts the programm but only displays the try icon - just like after you close BasKet).
Visually I still very much prefer Gnome, but Office is much better in KDE. Gnome is easy, while KDE is a bit more like Windows (and I do not mean that because of the “Start”-Button at the bottom left)
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