Does KDE really suck this much?

[Ben Walton]

I consider KDE to be a "better gnome than gnome" these days. Unity is a
mess, imo, and KDE gives me a more gnome 2 experience.

There are things I don't like about it but those are easily ignored. I
switched about 2 years ago and haven't looked back. (I had tried and given
up on KDE several times in the past too.)

Thanks
-Ben
On Dec 25, 2013 3:45 AM, "William Park" <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 02:40:06PM +0000, Matt Price wrote:
> > So, after a certain amount of work I have arch Linux installed on my new
> > laptop. I thought I would give KDE a try, so installed the kde-meta
> package
> > and booted up smoothly into KDE. It is so ugly! And its not at all
> obvious
> > to me how to do most basic things. Has anyone made the switch from unity
> or
> > gnome, and do you like it, and can you recommend some resources former
> > beginners? I've been using Linux for a decade so don't need intros to
> > basics, but the GUI really baffled me .l- I feel like my mother
> confronted
> > with a new tablet. Never thought that would happen to me...
>
> I'm running Slackware-14 and KDE-4.8.5.  Get rid of those funny icons
> and menu that they put on your desktop initially.  Use the "taskbar" at
> the bottom.  KDE icon is where Windows icon is and works like it.  When
> KDE menu pops up, you'll see "Favourites", "Applications", "Computer",
> "Last Used", and "Leave".  Of course, you'll be using "Favourites" most
> of the time.
>
> The menu is somewhat unusual.  It's not tiling or overlapping.  Instead,
> where you are in the menu tree is shown at the top, like "directory".
> The menu window itself is too small, so you get lost after few scrolls.
> That's why you use "Favourites" section.
> --
> William
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