Gnome vs KDE

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 21:50 -0500, David Curry wrote:
> Phil Labonte wrote:
> 
> >I have been using Gnome with Fedora since Core1
> >
> >I have loaded and used KDE just to check it out...
> >
> >My question is this to the list of experienced users;
> >
> >What is better for use as a Desktop system; KDE or Gnome?
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> I have tried both on RH7.1, RH8, FC2.  KDE behaved differently than 
> Gnome on the latter two OSes.  On a system with one CD-ROM and one 
> CD-RW, Gnome handles both drives appropriately.  On the other hand, when 
> I boot into a KDE desktop session, I am unable to mount either device.  
> So, I use the Gnome desktop which appears to play nice with a number of 
> KDE apps I use.
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this is so entirely absurd

who cares which one everybody uses?

The GNOME and KDE are heavily modified from the original distributions
anyway - it makes it hard to tell which you're using and intentionally
blurs the distinctions between the two. There's not supposed to be much
difference between them - purposely - at least as shipped by RHEL/Fedora

Craig