Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 2nd Jun 2005 00:17 UTC
It's been a few years since we ran such a poll. Let's see what most people prefer these days.
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Firstly - i'm very surprised that Gnome is in the lead. I think that the poll has been marked as being tampered with is a good explanation for that phenonomen. From talking to people, the vast majority seem to run KDE (i'd estimate 60% of Linux users that I know). Polls that i've seen conducted elsewhere over time seem to correlate with this figure that i've reached.
Gnome is what I consider very 'dumbed' down. I don't like being told that I can't (easily) configure something. For those bitching about KDE and it's configurability - you *don't* have to reconfigure it just because you have the option. So, what's the problem?
For those bitching about UI - I haven't used Gnome since v1.4 and it went downhill from there imho. KDE has just improved and improved and improved.
Windows/icons? KDE childish? Not in my eyes. It looks clean, crisp and professional.
QT vs GTK? GTK is just plain ugly. Plain ugly. Let me repeat it again for the dumb - plain ugly.
Speed? Gnome does indeed start up faster, and KDE have responded to this by improvements - compare KDE 3.1.4 to 3.4 and you'll see what I mean. With the release of KDE 4 we should see an even larger speed increase. I don't think it'll match Gnome for speed even then though, but I think QT does more, and doing more simply takes more time.
Some choose Gnome because QT by Trolltech isn't considered to be 'free' - fair enough.
I also like XFCE 4.* - very nice. Afterstep rocks as well. So please don't call me a KDE fanboy ;-)
Dave