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Re: which environment?
> well, I didn't test much either KDE or GNOME, from what I can see they try
> to get a lot of widgets look and act like the latest microsoft stuff, with
> extra add-ons as imagination would guide them. so if the looks are
> similar, drag-and-drop is agreed to work, and apps are applenty (pun
> intended), which is going to be my choice?
I'm not sure this is a direct answer to your question, but here go my
impressions of both.
I've been using KDE for many months and got used to it so much I hard
hard time leaving it, but I'm glad I did. KDE takes approximately 20
MB of RAM, 10 of which safely go to swap when the RAM is needed, but
the other 10 of which remain. That was my main reason to leave KDE.
The other was speed, as you mention it. I settled for Window Maker.
The reason was that it is very small in memory (3-4 MB), very simple
to configure (as compared to, say, Enlightenment), and makes use of
cool X features to do very nice stuff like adding icons for
applications to the Dock using drag-and-drop. It has lots of other
very useful features (I'll elaborate if anyone wants that).
As to Gnome, I have yet to understand its purpose completely. I tried
to run it under my Window Maker, and I got this nice panel on the
bottom of the screen. I don't have any use for it though (all of its
functionality is already there in Window Maker). Other than that I run
Gnome, but for me it's nothing more than having the libraries
installed and thus the ability to run Gnome applications. I'm not
using any of the Gnome permanent UI features because there's nothing
in them that I don't have in my window manager anyway.
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