Vive La Desktop Difference!

How about System-Administration-Synaptic and I can find and install Firefox just as fast or faster than it will install under XP. You are suffering from an over abundance of "The Windows Way" my friend. Shake off that drug:-)

It's people like you who make a lot of sites disallow anonymous posting. You only use KDE and yet you troll Gnome sites solely for the purpose of spreading crap. Nowhere in the article does the author say anything about which one is best. If fact, he explicitly states that choice is great and each person should make up there own mind. I guess that scares some KDE zealots.

Please, do everyone a favor and stop trolling. Noone is buying what you're selling and it reflects badly on the whole KDE community even though it's just a few retarded individuals making asses of themselves.

You take time to blame the author for a lot of things, while you blatantly make false claims about GNOME. I have NEVER seen anywhere anything even remotely similar to "We are the one true desktop and you shall have no other upon yyour computer". Could you please exclaim why do you think so? GDM gives an easy way to choose between different DEs and you can just as well use f.ex. KDE apps under GNOME. Oh, and as you complain about esd and the fact that there's not much to configure about it: well, so what? If your sound card isn't set up correctly, Arts won't be able to use it either! And GNOME is going to move away from esd to using Gstreamer as it's audio backend, and Gstreamer already allows you to choose OSS or ALSA, whichever you prefer. And just as an important note: ALSA or OSS has absolutely nothing to do with interacting with user, except for producing sound.

And as you try to praise KDE for having working default settings and all, well, so does GNOME. GNOME doesn't care if you have a bizarre sound device configuration, it doesn't care if you have multiple ones etc. And most GNOME programs these days use Gstreamer for audio output, so complaining about esd doesn't really help you much.

Next time could you please think of something real to complain about. Now you're only complaining about the fact that esd doesn't have a GUI for choosing ALSA or OSS and then claim that the whole DE is bad...
-WareKala

The article's author - like many deluded GNOME fanatics, take pride in choosing the in ability to make a choice, while at the same time praising the FLOSS way of offering more choice. I find this kind of hypocrisy baffling.

No. What he's saying is that it's great to have both GNOME and KDE because there are different types of users, but he personally prefers GNOME. Like me.

There are many differences between KDE and GNOME, some trivial to find, some more complicated. I thought the article was good because I feel the same way: some people prefer KDE, some people prefer GNOME. Heck, even the developers of both systems feel the same way.