Why Is KDE So Fucking Amazing?

What's so great about KDE?

Please enlighten me.

[RAOVQ]

its personal choice. use it and see if you like it more. you can install both and swap around at login on pretty well every distro.

i personally prefer gnome, others will prefer KDE, and others will prefer one of the other ones (XFCE and the like).

im not sure if you are trolling trying to start a stupid battle or are just lazy as fuck.

[Punk_Rocker_22]

I started with KDE back in the days of Mandrake

I perfer gnome over all.
I find its simpler to use, and I'm not obsessive about my GUI

[Issue313]

Originally Posted by 449

What's so great about KDE?

Please enlighten me.

It only has one task bar, gnome has two.
It has a more functional, but slower file explorer.
It has a control panel, which although it sucks, is still better than gnome.
Some KDE apps are pretty good.
It looks neater and more professional (subjective, but true).

KDE you can shutdown and restart from the menu. Gnome you can't.
KDM is nicer than GDM, at least as far as I know.

[deus-redux]

Originally Posted by Issue313

It only has one task bar, gnome has two.

You say that as if it's a good thing.

-deus-

[grusomhat]

Originally Posted by Issue313

It only has one task bar, gnome has two.
It has a more functional, but slower file explorer.
It has a control panel, which although it sucks, is still better than gnome.
Some KDE apps are pretty good.
It looks neater and more professional (subjective, but true).

KDE you can shutdown and restart from the menu. Gnome you can't.
KDM is nicer than GDM, at least as far as I know.

WTF do people mean by one task bar vs two. If you are talking about the pane bar, you can configure that to have as many or as little as you want.

I'm probably completely wrong though

Originally Posted by RAOVQ

im not sure if you are trolling trying to start a stupid battle or are just lazy as fuck.

Robinhoody renamed the title, blame him.

Originally Posted by Issue313

It only has one task bar, gnome has two.

You mean it has one big squished together taskbar, instead of two normal sized ones. I don't see why it matters what the default is since it's very customizable in both Gnome and KDE.

Originally Posted by Issue313

It has a control panel, which although it sucks, is still better than gnome.

I really don't like the control panel in KDE, I prefer the Gnome menus, but that's my personal preference so...

Originally Posted by Issue313

Some KDE apps are pretty good.

Gnome also has some pretty good apps. The one's KDE has that would stand out to me are Amarok, and Ktorrent. But when Deluge 0.6 is released it will be better than Ktorrent. Amarok is pretty irreplaceable, but Exaile does a very good job a mimicking it.

Originally Posted by Issue313

It looks neater and more professional (subjective, but true).

Very very subjective. By default I think they both look like shit. I could never get themes to work in KDE 3.5 so I automatically prefer gnome. And Emerald just makes it that much better.

Originally Posted by Issue313

KDE you can shutdown and restart from the menu. Gnome you can't.

...You're kidding right...

Originally Posted by Issue313

KDM is nicer than GDM, at least as far as I know.

I've used both for a good amount of time. I always come back to gnome for looks and overall functionality.

[Issue313]

Originally Posted by 449

...You're kidding right...

Sadly not. How does one restart from the menu in gnome. On mine I only see Log Out and Lock Screen. I need to go to console and su reboot to restart.

[grusomhat]

Originally Posted by Issue313

Sadly not. How does one restart from the menu in gnome. On mine I only see Log Out and Lock Screen. I need to go to console and su reboot to restart.

Shutdown > Restart in the Desktop menu.

You can also add the restart button to wherever you wish.