[GTALUG] Desktop swap

[Giles Orr]

On 31 July 2017 at 12:27, Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> For about the mid-nineties to the late aughts, I was a heavy-duty KDE fan.
> The integration and customization was what I needed, it was good looking and
> functional.
>
> Then it started getting more bloated and slower, seemingly outpacing the
> increases in CPU speed and decreases in RAM cost. Or maybe it was just the
> Kubuntu implementation. But I found that it wasn't working for me. So I
> experimented for a while. Yech.
>
> I found GNOME to be something of soap opera that required a whole set of
> sub-choices (GNOME 2? GNOME 3? Mate? Unity? WTF?). My first GNOME
> experiences (with the default position of icons moved from the sensible
> bottom to the left) seemed more like an exercise in social engineering (ie,
> what the devs wanted dumb users to do) rather than any real attempt to make
> my computer less intrusive in the path to doing Real Stuff.
>
> And then I discovered Linux Mint and its wonderful little Cinnamon desktop.
> Yeah I know it's gtk based and has big chunks of GNOME in it, but its
> look-and-feel seems less ... disruptive. It's served me well for much of
> this decade.
>
> But I still miss KDE. So I've been having another look. I've been reading
> that prefer the Linux Mint version over Kubuntu, and that it's still big but
> now much speedier.
>
> I know it's technically possible to have both KDE and Cinnamon physically
> installed on my Mint desktop. But I've also been reading that the two
> systems are so different in default ways of doing things that switching
> between them is an invitation for grief that will bork things. Most of the
> forum stuff I've read says that it's much cleaner to do a reinstall.
>
> Has anyone else here played with systems that can casually switch between
> KDE/Qt and GNOME/gtk? Is anyone here using current KDE?

This doesn't answer your question.  That said, it may be of interest
given your reasons for leaving KDE.  There's a group of people who
created a fork of KDE when it went to version 4 because they thought
KDE 3 was better.  It's called "Trinity:" http://trinitydesktop.org/

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Giles
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