Is KDE on Fedora really that bad?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 11/2/06, Kim Lux <lux at diesel-research.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 16:04 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Arthur Pemberton <pemboa <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > I just have to ask. I was reading through an article on slashdot.org,
> > > and I found a suprising number of comments which amounted to "KDE on
> > > RedHat is bad". As somone who has never tried anything but Fedora, but
> > > love KDE, I need to know...am I getting a raw deal without knowing it?
> >
> > I'm using the Fedora-provided KDE, I don't see what the problems with it are
> > supposed to be. It works great for me.
> >
>
> Ditto.  It works really great for me.  Like I can't imagine how to make
> it much better, but I am sure the KDE folk will nonetheless.  Its pretty
> awesome.
>
> I while back I opened a gnome session.  I don't see what all the fuss is
> about.  I thought it was clearly inferior.  Maybe its just me.
>
> I guess the good thing is that we have a choice !   I don't like Redhat,
> especially Fedora, favoring one over the other.

I mayself do not _like_ iot, but I do very well understand it. RedHat
is a business: they need to have a clear business plan. There is
nohing clear abtu focusing on two, nearly mutually exclusive
environments.

Also, frankly agree with their choice. Any time I touch/see Gnome, it
always seems to have a very strict/straight/coperate look which I
would imagine would be perfect for RH's customers. I however use KDE
on my desktops and XFCE on my servers. If I ever had to support a
large number of Linux workstations, I would either use Gnome, or roll
out a KDE customized to emulate the feel of Windows - the average
person is not really capable of making full use of the power of KDE
enough to differentiate it from Gnome (maybe even Windows).

DISCLAIMER: the above is IMHO, and not material for flamming.

Peace

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