How Slow is KDE?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On 1/22/06, Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I guess the true test is what I was asked last summer from someone who
>>never had been exposed to LINUX when I put a LINUX/KDE machine at
>>that customers site and went back a few weeks latter:
>>
>>Actual Quote:
>>
>>"Ben, what version of WINDOWS did you say this was? "
>>
> 
> 
> I love it. And that's what really chaps the xxxx of a lot of die-hard
> Linux afficianados. It looks too much like Windows, and that's got to
> be evil.
> 
> All joking aside, yes KDE is bloated, and so is Gnome and so is XFCE4,
> but it floats the boat of a lot of users, and it's quite useful for a
> lot of folks who couldn't hack my less bloated icewm setup.
> 
> IMO, Gnome is a piece of animal droppings moving uphill not horizontally.
> 
> Different strokes for different folks.

I, personally, find Gnome to be the most irritating WM I have tried.  It 
is so crippled that only an MIS* manager could love it.

     -- Alma

* MIS - Must Impose Standards