Linked by paul pianta on Wed 2nd Apr 2003 17:43 UTC
This is by no means a technical review - it is just a summary of my experience as I was going along, installing and configuring a Red Hat Linux 9 machine. I installed the standard "workstation" installation on my 2 year old desktop machine. I like Gnome at home, KDE at work, but this review only covers my experience with the default Gnome installation.
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I personally prefer the default Gnome looks the the default KDE looks. I like the Gnome artwork better than KDE's and even RedHat's (RedHat's icons are not the default Gnome icons). But, this is just personal preference and can be fixed quickly with themeing.
Gnome's applications are indeed running behind their KDE counterparts, but this is the nature of Gnome's philosophy of releasing the underlying infrastructure and letting the apps come later. I personally like Galeon a lot (and am looking forward to trying out Epiphany). I definitely prefer Galeon to Konqueror for web browsing. Evolution could really benefit from the Gnome 2.0 move (will be much prettier). GEdit is a sensible, simple text editor. Even Nautilus seems to work well for me (I have a fast machine). OpenOffice.org still feels kinda klunky, but it has better support for MS Office file formats (unfortunately still important to me). OpenOffice.org is neither KDE nor Gnome, so KDE and Gnome are on equal ground in that category (for me).