[NTLUG:Discuss] GUI recomendations

[Peter A. Koren]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 23:15 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> Jay Urish wrote:
> > I know this will probably touch off a small flame war,
> > 
> > As I get closer to dumping WinBlows and going 100% Linux, I am 
> > confronted with a myriad of choices for my X environment.
> > 
> > So far I have lightly looked at
> > 
> > KDE
> > 
> > Gnome
> > 
> > WindowMaker
> > 
> > Enlightenment
> 
> I'll stay away from the subjective analysis on these.
> 
> I use KDE...  Why?  Because it's the preferred/default (currently)
> desktop for SUSE Pro.
> 
> If I were using Red Hat (Fedora), I'd use Gnome because that
> is the preferred/default desktop for that distribution.
> 
> For me, the choice is often that which is best supported/integrated
> by the distribution vendor.  Something to consider.
> 
Agreed, that is a key point. I see Ubuntu/Kubuntu in my future for
several reasons, but the Kubuntu project, to add full KDE support to
Gnome based Ubuntu was critical.

-- Pete