which is more user friendly--KDE or GNOME

Parshwa Murdia b330bkn at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 16:40:48 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suspect that the answer depends solely on whether you come to Linux
> from Mac or Windows.

> GNOME <-> Mac

> KDE <-> Windows

> The handling of user-switching in KDE told the tale. In GNOME, all you
> get is a "New Login" option in a menu. As for switching among sessions?
> Well, that's what comes of not knowing how to do that on a Mac.

> KDE handles that exactly the same way that Windows does. It even has
> some of the same button designs.

> I imagine that the two desktops will each appeal to different groups of
> users that come to Linux from different GUI families.

Now it is very clear that I should go for KDE as I have come from
Windows. Your reply is really very clear and understandable. Thanks.

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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia

Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated
simple, awesomely simple, that's innocation.. -Charles Mingus


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