On 31 July 2017 at 12:27, Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi all.
For about the mid-nineties to the late aughts, I was a heavy-duty KDE fan. The integration and customization was what I needed, it was good looking and functional.
Then it started getting more bloated and slower, seemingly outpacing the increases in CPU speed and decreases in RAM cost. Or maybe it was just the Kubuntu implementation. But I found that it wasn't working for me. So I experimented for a while. Yech.
I found GNOME to be something of soap opera that required a whole set of sub-choices (GNOME 2? GNOME 3? Mate? Unity? WTF?). My first GNOME experiences (with the default position of icons moved from the sensible bottom to the left) seemed more like an exercise in social engineering (ie, what the devs wanted dumb users to do) rather than any real attempt to make my computer less intrusive in the path to doing Real Stuff.
And then I discovered Linux Mint and its wonderful little Cinnamon desktop. Yeah I know it's gtk based and has big chunks of GNOME in it, but its look-and-feel seems less ... disruptive. It's served me well for much of this decade.
But I still miss KDE. So I've been having another look. I've been reading that prefer the Linux Mint version over Kubuntu, and that it's still big but now much speedier.
I know it's technically possible to have both KDE and Cinnamon physically installed on my Mint desktop. But I've also been reading that the two systems are so different in default ways of doing things that switching between them is an invitation for grief that will bork things. Most of the forum stuff I've read says that it's much cleaner to do a reinstall.
Has anyone else here played with systems that can casually switch between KDE/Qt and GNOME/gtk? Is anyone here using current KDE?
This doesn't answer your question. That said, it may be of interest given your reasons for leaving KDE. There's a group of people who created a fork of KDE when it went to version 4 because they thought KDE 3 was better. It's called "Trinity:" http://trinitydesktop.org/ -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com