Swimmer Posted December 19, 2006 CID Share Posted December 19, 2006 For those of you confused about KDE, Gnome, and all the other players in the Linux desktop environment this is one read that will clear a lot of things up pretty quick... Not a technical read with all the ins and outs but it doest give a really good overview of each. http://techgage.com/article/beginners_guide_to_linux_desktops/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm311 Posted December 19, 2006 CID Share Posted December 19, 2006 mmmm...gnome Gnome is my preference here, set up SuSe a few days ogo (deleted Ubuntu out couldn't stand it) and I set up using Gnome and I love every bit of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 19, 2006 CID Share Posted December 19, 2006 i like KDE alltho Xfce looks pretty good. Nice find swimmer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted December 19, 2006 CID Share Posted December 19, 2006 OK guys , can you recomend KDE for a and getting on a bit , and just about coping with XP, I suport a group of silver surfers , some are on Win 98 some on Me. with a small group on Xp home , all they need is e-mail and web surfing + word , I need a free easy to use free OS, to make my life easier, Regards Roco UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 19, 2006 CID Share Posted December 19, 2006 OK guys , can you recomend KDE for a and getting on a bit , and just about coping with XP, I suport a group of silver surfers , some are on Win 98 some on Me. with a small group on Xp home , all they need is e-mail and web surfing + word , I need a free easy to use free OS, to make my life easier, Regards Roco UK i would go with suse 10.2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm311 Posted December 19, 2006 CID Share Posted December 19, 2006 If I wanted to try KDE (never used it) is there a way to switch to it or do I have to reinstall the O/S? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 19, 2006 CID Share Posted December 19, 2006 If I wanted to try KDE (never used it) is there a way to switch to it or do I have to reinstall the O/S? i think you have to reinstall but im not sure. Swimmer would know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted December 19, 2006 CID Share Posted December 19, 2006 i would go with suse 10.2 Thanks for that dlewis23 , I will give it a try on a spare computer over the Christmas break , If I can master it, it might solve the problem , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm311 Posted December 19, 2006 CID Share Posted December 19, 2006 I'll have to look into it when I get home, I'll just use my favorite tool (GooGle) and see what I can find...re-install will suck but I can get back to that point with no problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 19, 2006 CID Share Posted December 19, 2006 Storm311 What did you not like about Ubuntu? I just install it the other day, Have not had a chance to mess around with it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm311 Posted December 20, 2006 CID Share Posted December 20, 2006 Storm311 What did you not like about Ubuntu? I just install it the other day, Have not had a chance to mess around with it yet. Couldn't mount my windows drives, tried a whole lot of different things and it never would mount them for me, but when I installed suse it automatically found them, ubuntu just wasn't for me i guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 20, 2006 CID Share Posted December 20, 2006 I think I will download Suse too. See which one I like best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm311 Posted December 20, 2006 CID Share Posted December 20, 2006 I think I will download Suse too. See which one I like best. I really like suse, and i run my windows programs using cedega Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted December 20, 2006 Author CID Share Posted December 20, 2006 If I wanted to try KDE (never used it) is there a way to switch to it or do I have to reinstall the O/S? Well you have to have linux installed to be able to run KDE... basically Linux and Windows for that matter is just a command based operating system. Meaning that to actually do anything in the 'OS' the user tells the computer what command to run. For example Ping, the utility to measure latency in a network. This can be run from the command line prompt or you can download a program that allows you to click a button and ping a destination. Basically what the button is doing is running the command for you then showing the results. However, linux takes this one step further. Linux is a command line, I guess, native based operating system. That is to say that originally it was developed to be run exclusively from the command line and for some applications such as server, mainframes and even some work stations this is still done. However, because the software is also free and the growing popularity of Linux as a replacement to Windows the Linux desktop environment was born. Well it was born a long time ago but more advancements have come in the past few years then ever before. Basically what the linux desktop environment is, pretty much at its roots, is an application. It is just another program. So you could install multiple environments if you wanted but that would be a resource hog as each one takes about 1 gb of hard drive space and increases the boot time of the system. To do this you would have to install Gnome or KDE after you complete the installation. (I would do it then just to make sure that the system actually boots and is running before the installation occurs). From there you would open YAST -> Software Management and install the Gnome. I have never tried this and I dont have my installation media here to do it. If some wants to try post your results. Otherwise I will when I get back. Personally I am a KDE fan. I have used Solaris' interface at work and it is decent but it does take a lot of getting use to or just knowing you way around with a terminal windows. Basically Xfce is what Solaris' interface looks like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 20, 2006 CID Share Posted December 20, 2006 Are you running 32 bit or 64 bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm311 Posted December 20, 2006 CID Share Posted December 20, 2006 I installed KDE and it works perfectly. Just went to the application installation area and installed the package from my disk and removed GNOME so its all good now. I do like KDE better to be honest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted December 20, 2006 CID Share Posted December 20, 2006 ive always used kde - i dont like the look of gnome that much.....i guess its just a preference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 21, 2006 CID Share Posted December 21, 2006 So what are you running 32 or 64 bit and why are running it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted December 21, 2006 CID Share Posted December 21, 2006 i used both 64bit and 32bit but .... i stuck with 32bit for now because of the known lack of drivers/support for 64bit hardware ........ ive started using 64bit versions of the o/s since i wanted to take some advantage of my processor but like i said...it has its drawbacks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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