PiklesOnFire

Making the move to KDE

Sunday, February 7, 2010 2:23:26 PM

Pikles, Linux, Desktop, Fire, Perfect, Arch, On, kde

I have never really been a huge fan of KDE. GNOME seems to load faster, always [seemed] to give me better control over customizations, and I always felt more at home in it. Well, that has changed. I have been playing with the KDE environment provided in Arch Linux, and I have gotten used to KDE even more than GNOME now. So gone are the days of the footprint, and gone are the days of Compiz Standalone. In their place is going to be a fresh install of Arch Linux, and a beautiful new KDE interface on top of it.

In a few short hours, I will be putting p a post detailing a "How To" guide for getting a "Perfect Desktop" from Arch Linux and KDE. Along with this I'm going to put up screenshots and a few statistics. So this should be a good post to look forward to.

Check back soon :]

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Unregistered user # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 1:37:48 AM

Anonymous writes: i recently tried out KDE in gentoo, and i have it installed in fedora 12 as well, among other WM's. i couldn't make the switch from gnome/fxce. i found KDE to be slow, and to be too much of an emulation of windows for my liking. it's like a slow win7. it lacks customization, and Kwin is not on par with compiz, at all - it's choppy, and ugly like mutter(metacity3). i originally was trying out different desktops to see performance differecnes and the pro's and con's of each. gnome can be a bit bloated(if you let it!) but thus far, for me - gnome is the best choice, followed by xfce. kde is alright, but is a little tacky...