Linked by Aki Kolehmainen on Tue 29th Apr 2003 03:30 UTC
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y This is a desktop comparison of Red Hat Linux 9 and SuSE 8.2 Professional Edition. We have used Red Hat Linux 8 for all our work since last fall, and installed version 9 as soon as it became available. However, we have not been fully content with Red Hat, so we gave SuSE 8.2 a try when it became available this month.
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RE: completely subjective
by AndrewG on Tue 29th Apr 2003 05:22 UTC

Actually I was surprised because I recently did that on MDK 9.1. The only thing Gnome is faster at is starting up and then not by much. KDE's speed has increased dramatically of late.

I had originally thought of switching to Gnome because I prefer the way it looks and some of the little touches. WHen I tried KDE again after a couple of weeks, I was blown away by how fast things felt. Personally it responds a lot fast than Windows XP with Classic window decorations and animation turned off.

To truly not be subjective you would have to run numerous tests on different systems though.