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Coincidentally, if you're considering trying something new, I really recommend KDE. I've found it to be a very well-thought-out system that's both easy to use a
by tikhonj 14y ago
Coincidentally, if you're considering trying something new, I really recommend KDE. I've found it to be a very well-thought-out system that's both easy to use and easy to customize. The defaults are good, so there is no real need to customize, but if there's something you don't like chances are you can change it fairly easily.
I also really like certain KDE applications, especially Amarok (the music player). Okular is also pretty good--at the very least, I like it more than Evince.
I've been using KDE on Fedora for a while now, and I've been entirely happy with it. I'm switching over to a much more minimal XMonad setup now, but that's a different story and a much larger shift.
- retroafroman 14y agoI find KDE has the most polish of all the desktops, but it's also a fairly heavy in terms of computer requirements. Gnome 2.x ran very well on my old Atom netbook, Fedora 16 with Gnome 3.x runs acceptably (minus the small screen), and XFCE actually feels fast. I tried KDE several years ago on the same machine and it was unresponsive.
- sasvari 14y agoI'm switching over to a much more minimal XMonad setup now, but that's a different story and a much larger shift. I switched from using Gnome on Debian (work) to XMonad approximately one year ago (I am running Arch with XMonad on my MacBookPro at home and been very happy with this setup), and I didn't find the shift that large: the basic configuration pretty much works out of the box without the need for customization - at least at the beginning. And if you are eager to customize, there is a lot of information on how to set up xmobar, trayer and some Haskell XMonad stuff out there.
- alborland 14y agoSo are you using XMonad without a DE? How is the experience? BTW, how do you manage wireless networks and stuff?
- technomancy 14y agoI use fbpanel to make nm-applet work in my xmonad setup; it's very simple and config-file driven rather than hiding config in crazy XML gconf files like gnome-panel did.
- alborland 14y agoThanks! I am about to make the switch to XMonad without a DE and so I was making a list of things that I would be doing without a DE and wondering how the experience would be.
- technomancy 14y agoYou might find this interesting: https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/master/.xsession https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/master/.xsessio...
- sasvari 14y agoSo are you using XMonad without a DE? How is the experience? Yes, exactly. It's very lightweight and fast without all the clutter of a DE. I don't really miss anything. BTW, how do you manage wireless networks and stuff? I manage wireless/wired networks with netcfg in the background (without an applet for the trayer, haven't had any need for that yet; but that's up to individual preferences).