[H-GEN] Desktop wars ..... (no not really)

[Sandra Milne]

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Greg Black wrote:
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> On 2003-06-25, Raymond Smith wrote:
> 
>>Nick Kwiatkowski said:
>>
>>>a) Do I go with a desktop, and if so which (KDE or Gnome or <insert
>>>others>)?
>>
>>I use KDE/Debian at home, and GNOME/RedHat at work.
> 
> 
> Every time I use either KDE or GNOME, I see lots of bugs in the
> desktop stuff and dozens of core dumps from various bits and
> pieces of the system (not to mention machines that run slower
> than they should because the desktops are so bloated).  So the
> question is: do you just ignore the crashes and keep going or
> are you somehow luckier than me?

I can't remember the last time something crashed in KDE for me. I get 
lots of crashes in windows, but very few in KDE 3.1 .... maybe I am just 
lucky or maybe I choose my applications carefully enough that I'm using 
relatively stable programs.

KMail -- a few bugs, but I think most of them are my own fault.
Mozilla -- never noticed a bug and I think it's only crashed twice
KMerlin -- no bugs, no crashes. Runs way better than MSN Messenger in 
windows does
mplayer -- when I use it correctly it works great
komba -- only 'bugs' were things I caused myself by not using the 
program the way it's designed to be used
konquerer -- works great
d4x (a great program similar to getright/flashget) -- crashed a few 
times, but I think I'm using the development source
xmms -- surprisingly, I've yet to experience a crash. a lot of ppl 
complain about xmms but I've not had major problems with it. no more 
than with aol-spyware-player... er I mean winamp.

I use a few other programs, but these are my main ones. On the whole, I 
find KDE to be a lot more stable than windows. I just wish I had a 
decent enough cpu/video card to run diablo 2 under wine. And I wish 
Adobe would, as its next linux release, port over Premiere. I don't have 
DV so Kino/Cinelerra are not really any use for me. (The cinelerra 
homepage states dual athlon 2gig cpus as the minimum requirements...?!)

Sandra.
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