kde in extras - the devel discussion

[Arthur Pemberton]

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> I am somewhat of a newcomer to Linux and at a loss to understand the
> almost fanatical support of KDE.

I can assure you, releatively speaking, support for KDE is _not_
fanatical. Possibly the opposite.

>  When I was first exposed to Linux in
> RH9 I found that KDE did not work consistently

and that finding was quite possibly right. I started with RH8.0 +6 Gnome myself.

> and chose to use GNome.
> Recently I have started to use core 5.   KDE may work well in the
> current distro but I have become more familiar with GNome; apart from a
> personal preference I can see no technical reason to consider one better
> than the other.

That, my friend, is because you have not used both.

>  I assume by the strong support from many there may be a
> technical reason to support KDE over GNome, what are they.

I don't think you will see anyone answering this question. At least
not in this thread. This is just asking for a flame war.


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