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[C M Reinehr]

On Mon 07 February 2011 12:46:35 pm Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday, February 07, 2011, C M Reinehr wrote:
> > What desktop environment do you use? I installed a beta version of
> > Squeeze a  few weeks ago & noticed that they've switched to KDE4. I've
> > used KDE 3.x for years but KDE 4.x seems like a completely different
> > environment. It also seemed excruciatingly slow on startup (user login).
> >
> > Would be very interested in your thoughts & observations.
>
> Here's my $.02.
>
> I switched to XFCE when KDE 4.?  came out.  At the very first it wasn't
> usable...   Now it may be usable but is overkill.   Someday I may have to
> switch to it because I use a lot of KDE apps,  but not looking forward to
> it.
>
> For what I need, XFCE is very much like KDE 3.5

Thanks,  Bruce. I think I'll give XFCE a try. I have a half-dozen sales people 
that are anything but computer literate -- great at sales, less so at using 
computers. KDE 3.5 was similar enough to Windoz and simple enough that they 
could use it. Plus, the KDE experience has been mostly constant over that 
past two Debian stable versions. But I think there might be a steep/lengthy 
learning curve with KDE 4.x.

cmr


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