From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 4 15: 1:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D9537B403 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:01:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA60DE; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:07:25 -0700 Message-ID: <3B1C052C.CFD00356@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 15:01:16 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Erlin Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome vs. KDE References: <20010604210604.5772.qmail@web11707.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tim Erlin wrote: > > Alright, so let me turn it into an etiquette question > (seems appropriate for -newbies). As a newbie, my > resources for 'which is better' answers are pretty > limited. I suppose the 'try both' method is good, but > I'd like to draw on the experiences of those on this > list. I can understand avoiding asking this on > -questions, but it seems to me that this kind of > discussion is just right for -newbies. Or is it? At one time, KDE was better for newbies than GNOME. This was because GNOME was still new, buggy, etc. The situation is much different now. Both desktops are robust, stable, and suitable for newbies. I'm the biggest KDE fan in the world, and if you ask me privately, I will say "use KDE". But my preference for one over the other will most likely be based on factors that you would consider irrelevant. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message