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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The reason why GNOME lacks _some_ options is because Metacity is newer than KDE's window manager. Like it or not, sometimes you need to just start over because things have gotten out of hand - Sawfish was a good WM, but was rapidly hitting massive complexity level. It was time to start over, and it was a good decision. IMHO, this is not a big deal anyways, as the default configuration is pretty good.
I'm looking forward to Ximian Desktop 2 (XD2), which should be a real boost to the quality of GNOME apps. In particular, Evolution2 , RedCarpet2, and Ximian OpenOffice will do a _lot_ to help GNOME on the desktop.
-Erwos