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Monday 26 January 2009, 5:32 PM
Torvalds abandons KDE for Gnome
In an interview with Computerworld, Torvalds said "break everything" probably wasn't the best idea.
I got the update through Fedora and there was a mismatch from KDE 3 to KDE 4.0. The desktop was not as functional and it was just a bad experience for me. I'll revisit it when I reinstall the next machine which tends to be every six to eight months.
The Gnome people are talking about doing major surgery so it could also go the other way.
Ooh, fickle! He does, however, refrain from proclaiming 2009 as the year of Linux...
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At the very least, this makes me feel better about not being able to work with KDE. Try as I might, I havenīt been able to make enough sense of it to use it as my desktop manager. Now at least I feel like Iīm in good company.
For what it's worth, I don't use either (apart from briefly at install time). I run openbox as the window manager with ROX Session & ROX filer. Very lightweight, very fast, extremely configurable to EXACTLY how I like it, and virtually no eye-candy.
I agree. I recently upgraded from FC6 to Fedora 10, and tried KDE4.0 and then 4.1. Hated them both, so I went back to 3.5.2 where everything works well and you have a windows manager that you can configure how I want
KDE 4.1 is Linux's equivalent of a Vista desaster.
The KDE4.1 desktop is not really one anymore. simple things like right-click on the desktop to get a meaningful menu with entries like New Folder, Desktop configuration, etc. is not there anymore. It only deals with so-called 'widgets' (a meaningless expression for end users). Not even simple things like dragging an icon to the launchpad bar or customizing KDE4 to using the Crystal theme folder icons work anymore.
We switched from Fedora Core 6 KDE 3.5 to Ubuntu 8.10 Gnome 2.24.1, which is better than KDE4.1.
