Gnome or Gnome & KDE?

[phaedra]

Here's a question... Is there any functional difference between the two versions, other than the lack of KDE in the Gnome disk? I ask just because I'd hate to have to install this twice...

phaedra

BTW - I also hang out on freenode #ubuntu using the regged nick of phaedra too...

[DaddyX3]

Here's a question... Is there any functional difference between the two versions, other than the lack of KDE in the Gnome disk? I ask just because I'd hate to have to install this twice...

phaedra

BTW - I also hang out on freenode #ubuntu using the regged nick of phaedra too...

Here is my stab at this question; The only difference between these two versions is going to be the obvious difference in Desktop enviroments and the different included updates all ready pre-installed. I do believe that all typical KDE apps that run on Gnome is installed in the Gnome version. Thus- It will be a preference issue only for you. Do you like KDE or Gnome? Thats it. If you only use Gnome, I see no real reason why you would install the 1.7 version with both (waste of space IMHO). Did that answer your question?

[phaedra]

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Here is my stab at this question; The only difference between these two versions is going to be the obvious difference in Desktop enviroments and the different included updates all ready pre-installed. I do believe that all typical KDE apps that run on Gnome is installed in the Gnome version. Thus- It will be a preference issue only for you. Do you like KDE or Gnome? Thats it. If you only use Gnome, I see no real reason why you would install the 1.7 version with both (waste of space IMHO). Did that answer your question?[/quote]


To a point, yes it did... However, I noticed that with Ubuntu the different versions did have a bit of weirdness to them. The KDE version always seemed to have trouble with a few Gnome apps and K3B always seems to have trouble with file verify under Gnome... The only reason I'm using NeroLinux instead.

So Far, I've only booted the Gnome&KDE Live disc. I think I'll install that one after I've finished cleaning up my office.

phaedra

[Benbow]

K3b is a KDE application and should run better in KDE. I have found that with successive upgrades of Ultimate Linux however, K3b has become very fast in Gnome.
Try it, I don't think you'll be disappointed!

[phaedra]

K3b is a KDE application and should run better in KDE. I have found that with successive upgrades of Ultimate Linux however, K3b has become very fast in Gnome.
Try it, I don't think you'll be disappointed!

K3B has always run well, it's only the file verify I've had trouble with. Oddly enough, verify worked perfectly under CentOS 4... I think it's just the hald implementation with automounting that throws K3B off.

phaedra

[dcorleone]

Well the thing is, Gnome runs KDE apps by keeping a chunk of KDE running in the background all the time. I think a pure-Gnome system would be faster and more responsive without that extra overhead, but then you'd have to pretty much kiss off any KDE apps you might be attached to. I think anyway. I'm not an expert, but I'm quite sure there's at least a few KDE libraries kickin' around in any hybrid Gnome/KDE setup's background. And vice versa of course.

I'm running the KDE/Gnome version here, and I do use a few KDE apps, so there's gotta be some compatibility stuff running on my Gnome, but overall it still feels a lot lighter and more responsive than KDE, so I guess it's not a HUGE overhead. (Runnin' XFCE too, for that matter... )