which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

[nathan forbes]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 07:12 -0500, nathan forbes wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:32:34 +0100
> > > Parshwa Murdia wrote:
> > >
> > > > A very basic thing I would like to ask if KDE is more user friendly
> > > > then GNOME desktop?
> > >
> > > As far as I'm concerned they are both intensely user-hostile.
> > > They insist on changing the way everything works and is laid out
> > > on a regular basis, so your most frequent impression is "What
> > > the Hell?!"
> > >
> > > My philosophy:
> > >
> > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/stick/stick.html
> > > --
> > >
> > Lol yeah that sounds about right.
> >
> > They both have their strong points IMO.  I was a GNOME user for a long
> time
> > and later switched to KDE.
> > GNOME has a simplicity thing about it that makes it easier to use
> sometimes.
> >  But if you're a die-hard GNOME user
> > and then switch to KDE and really give it a chance, I think you'll find
> that
> > KDE has a lot of nice features that GNOME just
> > doesn't have.  And I don't mean just eye-candy stuff (although KDE's
> menus,
> > etc. are easier on the eyes and look more modern).
> >
> > Like for example, if you do any programming, and you like to use a GUI
> text
> > editor sometimes,
> > compare the features of Gedit to Kate...
>
> First of all, the OPs question is so ill-defined as to be meaningless,
> so I don't intend to answer it. In fact it sounds like a troll to me.
> However arguing for one desktop over another on the basis of specific
> apps is also meaningless, since they all work in both.
>
> poc (using Evolution on my KDE desktop)
>

True, this is bound to turn into a flame-war...

It's all just personal preference anyway.  If you wanna know about a DE or
WM, just try it out, and then you know yourself...


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