On 09/09/2011 03:57 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> A lot of people dismissed KDE after the rough time of version
4.0, in
> a similar way that Gnome3 is now losing its userbase. But today KDE4
> is a beautiful, stable and very user-friendly DE.
Stable? I had to wait until KDE-4.6 until I finally decided that
waiting and reporting bugs won't fix its buginess.
Switched to XFCE a few months ago, and didn't regret it. A traditional
desktop as I like it (a lot like KDE3).
- Clemens
Wow. Thank you. I was hesitant to try KDE after reading about 4.x, but
XFCE has brought most of the snappiness back to my machine. The Chrome
bookmarks pop-up dialog and IntelliJ's smart code completion are still
slower than they were under F14, but faster than Gnome3. And it was SO
easy to install. I have done a lot with Fedora, but I have never
installed a second Window Manager. Just stuck with Gnome. Yeah
Fedora! Gee, now I might try IceWM just for giggles. :)
Fred