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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Speed
by Anonymous on Tue 29th Apr 2003 15:57 UTC

i'm surprised that the author found suse/kde to be faster than redhat/gnome - i've always had th opposite experience (KDE is barely usable - gnome runs at a perfectly acceptable speed)

Also i think the author misses one of the main advantages - its simplicity. In gnome things work great out the box, and if i want to change something in the preferences it's easy to find, and i don't have to go through 50 tabs to get there. In KDE it seems that every preferences box has thousands of options crammed into it for no apparent reason other than to obscure the options that normal people might want to change.