lets not forget http://gnomedesktop.org/ ... A great site for getting gnome optimizations.

Don't forget that there are other window managers available, like BlackBox, Window Maker, and a ton of others that aren't as "heavy" as Gnome or KDE. Both KDE and Gnome are great for various reasons, but they are by no means the end-all be-all of window managers.

Add on, dont forget about FluxBox I run it on my laptop it is so quick!


cheers

From what ive read, gnome is also good for people with diabilities (blindness), were it will make sounds, its very interesting. I dont know why, ive never met a blind techie, well not yet. KDE, is just good looking, Gnomes great too, but ive always went KDE my self. Please do not forget gnome is very cosimzable as previously mentioned.

I use both alternately. Overall, I think KDE is better, but I use GNOME once in a while because I get tired of KDE. From what I hear, GNOME is easier for people switching from Mac OS, whereas KDE is easier for people switching from Windows.

I've heard many recommendations that users start with KDE, then decide if they like GNOME better once they're more comfortable with Linux, and from my limited experience, I think this is the way to go.

Hello,

Wow. An old thread!

GNOME seems to me to be more speedy, and less extras on it, whereas KDE seems to have more bells and whistles, such as Palm stuff and Games.

I usually install both, and go with GNOME. I think on my next box, however, I will go with KDE, because I want to do more different things with linux. I work with RedHat / Fedora systems.

But for strict performance over VNC, TWM still wins hands down.

Christian

I have an older PC and use GNOME insted of KDE for its speed as i has less bells and whistles and ocasionally sawmill.

However, I upgraded from FC1 to FC4 (with GNOME 2.0) and things have changed alot.

I would ahve to say that KDE is easier to configure and has more extras but GNOME is a solid, reliable, good looking desktop.

I'm in line with Christian on this one. Maybe I'm just apathetic, but I don't care what WM I'm in. The main criteria I use is "Can I quickly open a terminal in it?" Most of the time, that means I just use the default WM of the distro. Since I'm running Debian quite a bit now, that usually turns out to be Gnome.

To throw in my US$.02 regardng VNC performance, I'm going to have to shoot for ion (http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/), because it uses almost NO resources. I think using top, I calculated that ion was using at most 300KB of RAM on my box, and that's running over a VNC connection. Out of all the WMs I've come across, that one is the best example of my "Can I quickly open a terminal in it?" need.

it comes down to the apps.

I use gnome on my laptop as I use it for web (firefox)/email (evolution) /chat (x-chat, gaim) and general productivity (abiword, gnumeric, mrproject)

my desktop machine has kde 3.4 installed as I use it for web development as I really like kioslaves, kate, konqueror and quanta

I know I can run kde apps in gnome and vice versa but I like my desktop to be consistant

I'm trying to set up DSL on my old laptop. But its not working, going to try BeatriX.