On Sunday 27 April 2008 18:57:05 Antonio Olivares wrote:
Also at that time, if I am not mistaken, Red Hat did
not put much emphasis into KDE that Mandrake Linux was
born using Red Hat as the base and they took up on KDE
and made it look better than Red Hat. So in some ways
Anne, you have used Mandrake Linux and now Mandriva,
you like KDE and as you have mentioned you will also
run Mandriva 2008.0 or 2008.1 because Fedora's KDE is
not there yet and you need a comfort zone. Am I right?
Yes and no. I've used Mandrake/Mandriva since version 8, so there's a lot
of
truth in what you say. However, when I tried running rawhide leading to FC6
I found that I did like that as well. Over the last couple of years I've
found that running either one makes me want the other :-) Consequently I'll
have Mandriva on this laptop, where I need it to be 'comfort zone' as you put
it, but I shall also have F9 on another box. I also have CentOS on my
server, which, I'm sure you know, is very close to FC6.
Like Antonio M mentioned earlier, if you take the
Fedora DVD the default will be gnome, if you want KDE,
you would be better served using The KDE Live CD
variant. I install both if I have the space, I use
k3b and some KDE apps.
Sometimes I install both. Sometimes I install KDE and one of the lighter
desktops, though I haven't done that just recently.
FYI,
I install both KDE and Gnome when I install Fedora
onto my machines. Which one I use on a particular
machine depends on which one runs better on the
machine.
Absolutely. Also, I prefer kde applications for some things and gnome
applications for other things - and that varies from one distro and version
to another. Consequently, I may not have a gnome desktop installed but I'll
certainly have a large slice of gnome libraries etc..
As for stats, I do not care for them.
There's Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics. For Rawhide,
I would like to give KDE more of a chance, but it is
not beating out Gnome for the starting position.
Gnome is doing a better job for me. my $0.02 :)
It has to be a personal choice. Of course at the moment KDE is in a very
difficult position. It has to get out into the wider public for testing - a
bit like rawhide :-) - yet it's still very much a work in progress. At the
moment there are going to be a lot of complaints, mostly because it's not
clear which things are gone for ever and which things are merely 'not quite
there yet'. I do talk to several KDE developers, and am quite happy to ask
them questions like that - once I'm back from my holiday :-)
I may not see any reply to this, as I've just signed off for a couple of
weeks.
Anne