[SC.LUG] Choosing a distro - KDE or Gnome

[Richard Smedley]

On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 07:54 +0100, Adrian Wontroba wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:37:57PM +0000, Damian Parker wrote:
> > 100% Agree with vi, but really you want 
> 
> .. vim, KDE and FreeBSD at home & vim, twm and FreeBSD at work.

TWM? Bloat - no, seriously. ratpoison uses less memory, for better
functionality. Ion2 is better (in some ways). PWM best of all.

To address the needs of the original poster, try KDE and GNOME.
I tried both numerous times, and they still annoy the hell
out of me.

I 've used PWM on laptops with as little as 16MB RAM (better
on 32MB, as it's hardly worth running a GUI without
running a few apps).
At work I have a 64-bit machine, with 1GB of RAM...
I still run PWM :-)

Everybody interacts with computers slightly differently - try
as many different interfaces as you can, until you  find the 
one thta gets in the way least and helps you do the most
productive work :-)

If you haven't got time to monkey about with 30 different window
managers, then install Ubuntu with GNOME, and try WindowMaker on your
day off ;-)

 - Richard

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Richard Smedley,                                                  RichardS at bvsc.org
Technical Development Specialist (Information & Skills),
Midland Open Source Technology.                             http://www.most.org.uk/
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