Oops! Sorry about that! Kmail gave me an error on the first send so I didn't think it was sent out.
On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:33, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > > > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) > > As stated previously I am a newbie in the Linux world, but one that seen > enough to know that there is no going back now! So currently I don't really > have a loyalty to any of the higher level window systems. I would be > interested in knowing from your experience why you feel that Gnome is > superior to KDE. I guess what I am looking for deals more with the > functionality than anything else and not speed. So far going from Windoze > to Linux/KDE is like going from dialup to wireless! > > One example of what I mean. One of my part time jobs is hosting and setting > up websites and web apps (ASP/PHP). I cannot work without a password vault > of some kind because I have way more login information than I could ever > remember. While setting up a Kmail account I was blown away when it ask me > if I wanted to store the password in Kwalet! I think in the back of my mind > I thought I was going to have to give up some functionality for free > software in moving to Linux. Was I ever so wrong! > > From my point of view the real speed of an OS/Windowing system is not just > in how fast it will pop a window on the screen, although important, but > also in how does it, with the functionality it contains, speed you along > with the work that you have to do? So, do you think Gnome is functionally > better and KDE and why? > > Thanks, > Randy
