Re: GNOME or KDE or Other?

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

W Bauske wrote:
> 
> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > 
> > Not a clue which one is more popular.  KDE is plain broken.
> > 
> 
> Are you saying this for RH6.2 only?

No, stuff which came with 6.2, 6.1 and something I compiled myself for
5.2.  6.0 was mostly broken in a very long list of areas (Gnome, in
particular, was in a terrible shape there) so I never had that
distribution in any serious use.  I had, probably, the least frequent
accidents with binaries from my own compilations but for me often
enough to not consider KDE anything else but a toy (not even a pretty
one, IMO, but beauty is in an eye of a beholder...).

> I use KDE on RH6.0/6.1 and it's worked fine.

Either you are very lucky or your tolerance threshold on "surprises" is
much higher than mine. :-)

> Maybe it's an interaction
> with specific HW, not necessarily just the graphics card.

Maybe, but I have seen that on at least three really different
hardware types (Cabriolet, UX, DP264 and probably LX - the last one
I do not remember) with different graphics card (Mach64, Elsa Gloria).

> Note I use NO sound on any of my systems as I've found sound
> to be the most flakey thing in Linux. (YMMV)

There was no sound involved in my experience.  This is just
what I have seen myself.

  Michal