On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:08 PM, stan gryt2@q.com wrote:
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:19:05 +0200 Marko Vojinovic vvmarko@gmail.com wrote:
And I'm curious why doesn't anyone even mention KDE as an alternative for Gnome3? As it seems, these days KDE4 is by far the most advanced, most mature and most configurable desktop environment out there.
On my old hardware, KDE is a resource hog. The DE runs like it is moving through molasses. On newer hardware it probably isn't noticeable. And for the short time I did run it, it was different enough that there was a learning curve. LXDE and XFCE are probably much closer to Gnome 2 in behavior.
I'm using the Gnome 3 fallback mode on F15, and my DE has snappy response. I suspect the same would be true of LXDE or XFCE.
I do not expect KDE4 to take more resources than Gnome3, even when you turn on its desktop effects. That said, I do agree that it is more demanding than XFCE and LXDE. If you have old hardware it is certainly better to run something lightweight. But on such hardware I expect even Gnome2 to be slow. ;-)
The fallback of Gnome3 isn't really a DE, it is rather... well... a fallback, and it is expected to be lightweight, since it is intended to work on low-end hardware. I certainly wouldn't recommend anyone with such hardware to run KDE. But for those with more modern hardware, I think KDE is something worth looking into. ;-)
Best, :-) Marko