Aaron Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the Desktop [LWN.net]

Aaron Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the Desktop

Posted Feb 3, 2008 13:19 UTC (Sun) by alonso (guest, #2828)
In reply to: Aaron Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the Desktop by frazier
Parent article: Aaron Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the Desktop (ComputerWorld)

You have to ask yourself: "Why asus chose Kde and not Gnome?". Kde is better than gnome. kde
has a licence problem, is gpl and not lgpl this is why red hat has choose gnome. Mandrake(now
mandriva) was born because kde was better but wasn't supported in red hat. If Nokia will make
lgpl qt things will change dramatically.

Better?

Posted Feb 3, 2008 19:07 UTC (Sun) by tony (guest, #3654) [Link]

"KDE is better than gnome."

This is not a matter of fact, it's a matter of preference.

I dislike KDE. I don't mind GNOME. It's not great, but it's not bad. KDE seems to work
differently from the way I work; it gets in my way more than not. And, I think it's ugly.

It's a matter of preference between the two.

I haven't tried KDE 4. There've been some big changes, so I might give it another shot.

However, as a developer, I *really* dislike KDE. The choice of C++ as a base language was a
bad one, IMNSHO. It tends to make it harder to develop in straight C, or Objective-C (which I
prefer *infinitely* over C++).

So, as both a user and a developer, I rather prefer GNOME. I believe it is better *for me*
than KDE.