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Poll Results: Gnome or KDE?

 
  • 40% (17)
    Gnome
  • 52% (22)
    KDE
  • 7% (3)
    Other (please specify)
42 Total Votes  
post #41 of 45
4/30/05 at 10:05pm
Yeah, its not just gkrellm either. You may remember my frantic posts about this behaviour; I turned my system up-side-down, stripped it all the way down. The problem went away but then, just a few weeks ago, it froze up when I ran a battery & temp monitoring desklet app - it hit me: it was f'ng ACPI all along! Now its all clear: gkrellm was making the situation worse, but the system crashed even without gkrellm (although after much longer uptime) because KDE still had its battery monitoring facilities running. Now I just probe the data whenever I need it; these single probes are virtually harmless.
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post #42 of 45
4/30/05 at 10:56pm
fluxbox owns

minimal memory usage and very fast
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post #43 of 45
5/2/05 at 12:33am
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Originally Posted by redgiki
Yes, I agree. For now, only software suspend (swsusp) using the lid-latch trigger seems to work adequately, and even with that I sometimes have to restart network interfaces and whatnot. Suspend-to-RAM is definitely borked, but I hear that it's better in 2.6.11 than 2.6.10, so I'm building that in just a few minutes

My 9300's battery life (6-cell pack) is abysmal... a little under two hours in "normal" usage. So a working suspend is pretty important to me for those times that I take my notebook with me various places...

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Redgiki
dont expect anything better from 2.6.11. Same old same old it suspends fine but doesnt resume. Atleast thats my experience.
I have had great experience with swsusp2 though. Has worked 100% for me so far. I can even be playing a video with mplayer and put my system to hibernate and when i restore it will be playing the video right were i left off. The only thing i had to do for my 9300 was patch the nvidia-kernel driver .

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Shawn
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post #44 of 45
5/2/05 at 5:07pm
I spent a solid 3 weeks with Gnome and am totally fed up with it's dull (albeit sleek) interface and it's lack of customization options. Additionally it's slow.

But for the past 3 weeks I've been using KDE. KDE is just so much better in those regards. Even its default apperance is fun. It's so easy to customize and you can do such a wide range of effects even in the basic package (without suberkarmba). Additionally, I find it runs a good bit faster than Gnome.

Still, Gnome does have a redeeming feature - it (seems to me) to be a good it more stable than KDE. KDE (3.4) just randomly pops up with bugs all the time. And I'm not talking about just one installation - I've reinstalled clean installations 5 times over the past week.

Overall I'm much happier with KDE, but I really wish it were less buggy. Note: On my sister's laptop (Inspiron 1100) I actually havent seen a single bug report yet, so maybe I am just doing something wrong to it to cause the bugs.
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post #45 of 45
5/2/05 at 9:26pm
Thread Starter 
I think I am initially going to try KDE, then if I don't like it I'm going to check out Gnome. All your advice is greatly appreciated!
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