GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition [LWN.net]

GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

Posted Dec 15, 2005 7:41 UTC (Thu) by pascal.martin (subscriber, #2995)
In reply to: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition by aigarius
Parent article: GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition

I am in a similar situation, except for a few things:
- Gnome removed some of the options I did setup. I felt cheated.
- Despite its "keep it simple" mantra, Gnome has become really heavy.
- Gnome has had a tendency to forget my config on upgrade (debian specific?)

As logon time kept increasing, the frustration of not being able to restore my config convinced me to switch to Xfce:
- Xfce is simple and has not much more options than Gnome,
- but it starts much faster and takes up less memory.
- It tends to loose the user's config less often (your mileage may vary).
- It still use GTK (I don't like C++, the language made complicated so to maximize memory leaks :-)

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