Comments on: Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.2: KDE 4.3 Experience, with Luboš Luňák

By: Pawel

Pawel — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:10:00 +0000

It’s great KDE is default DE now. While some gnome, ex-ximian fanboys and/or devs screams on your mailing lists it’s good to see you have enough courage to stand against their lobby. It’s just a natural and smart choice – KDE is much more advanced, feature rich, looks far better, it’s faster, uses modern QT4 toolkit, stays away from M$ mono. Just great!

By: phocean

phocean — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:57:46 +0000

Frankly, I don’t care that you used Gnome and definitely like KDE 4.
Can you understand that people like me tried and just don’t like KDE the way it is ?

I prefer Gnome. Comma. Gnome and its users deserve respect.
So please stop trying to convince us to switch.

Gnome does all I want it to do and I will see how it goes with Gnome 3.0. Using openSUSE, or not if we still keep being ignored and if this monopolistic attitude in Planet Suse goes on.

By: phocean

phocean — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:54:08 +0000

I have been feeling exactly the same during these last weeks.
On the planet, it is all about KDE, KDE and KDE…

They swore that pushing KDE as the default windows manager would have no effect on the integration priorities. But, as I expected however, it is a fact in reality : KDE is the window manager of choice of openSUSE.

I reported a few Gnome bugs, and clearly, they have been almost ignored.

Well, I feel abandonned. I liked openSUSE very much and respected that both environment get the same attention.
Now that it is going to be different, I will look again for a Gnome distribution.

By: kistej

kistej — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:26:54 +0000

at the beginning (9.0 was for me) I used kde then changed to gnome (9.3 -10)….it looks now I will change back…unbelievable… :)

By: Eugenee

Eugenee — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:03:32 +0000

You can not be neutral, really. Before this Gnome was first in the menu, below was the possibility to select KDE. It always seemed to me that Gnome is the preselected DE in OpenSuSE.

By: Hemal

Hemal — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:32:03 +0000

LMAO!

By: Marcello

Marcello — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:26:38 +0000

Terminal is the true 2nd class citizen. =D

By: JayCe

JayCe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:14:51 +0000

After using openSUSE for several years, here are my thoughts:
KDE is great – fast, powerful and good-looking with hints and information balloons all over the place… but(!) I sincerely prefer GNOME. It forces the user to be a lot more “hands-on” system-wide and this is very helpful if you want to learn linux inside-out. GNOME is not as intuitive and window$-like as KDE, mas it has its own glamour. I have learned so much in GNOME by just being forced to. In KDE almost every little thing is thought of and that is great for the absolute newbie, but with GNOME you can improve your knowledge. As I see it, GNOME is much more Unix-spirited that KDE (which for me feels a bit like Micro$oft’s OS…). Still, KDE is popular and easy to use and I’m very grateful for it, but in the end, having experienced both to the fullest of my capabilities, I always end up choosing GNOME and, as time passes by and new system management challenges appear, I never look back – GNOME prevails solid as rock.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:09:23 +0000

It’s unbelieveable that there isn’t a pre-selection to boot straight into a terminal!!!

By: Pierre

Pierre — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:47:14 +0000

I updated from openSUSE 11.1 with zypper, too. And just how you told, me too, had no breakage, no use of reconfiguring my system. This is exacly why I learned to love this tool and can’t image how we could have lived without it. ;)