Happy new KDE user

archer108 · 2010-12-22 17:49:37

after many years of Gnome I finaly gave myself a try on KDE and it works very well.
Evolution just was driving me crazy more often then needed, so I startet with Kontact but finally ended up with the full KDE package.
At the same time installed dual boot Windows 7 but these guys can not catch up with the snappy KDE.
Great work of KDE team, and guess Gnome really has to speed up if they want to remain in a good shape, if it is not already to late for them.

HP/Compaq Laptop 6510B
4 Gig RAM 600 Mhz

anonymous_user · 2010-12-22 21:42:22

Just out of curiousity, are those specs correct? You have 4GB of ram in an old 600Mhz machine?

markbabc · 2010-12-22 21:51:03

anonymous_user wrote:

Just out of curiousity, are those specs correct? You have 4GB of ram in an old 600Mhz machine?

i think hes saying his RAM is clocked at 600mhz not his cpu http://www.notebookreview.com/default.a … w=HP+6510b

anonymous_user · 2010-12-22 21:54:23

Ok that makes much more sense XD

SS4 · 2010-12-22 22:10:11

I'm a happy KDE user too although I changed to the Frugalware icons because they look better IMO. Mind you the jury is still out on Amarok

ANOKNUSA · 2010-12-22 23:14:24

I switched from GNOME to KDE about 8 months ago (about the same time I left Ubuntu behind...hmmm....), and I don't see myself going back. I love the advanced interface and window management features it comes with by default, and the nice little bit of eye candy it provides. I still like GNOME, though, and hope version 3 works out the way they'd like it to. It seems a lot of folks are pretty wary of its development track, and you don't have to look too hard to find some forum thread or blog post about people planning to switch to another DE or WM because of it. Of course, it took about two-and-a-half years for KDE 4 to really start maturing, too, so...

dyscoria · 2010-12-22 23:44:11

Ahhh KDE. I've always loved the KDE project and all the applications associated with it. Amarok, Digikam, Rekonq, all the kdepim stuff, Krita, K3B.... just to name a few of the *excellent* applications associated with KDE. For a long time has some of these softwares been considered the best in their genre.

Having said that, I've switched to i3 now and a bunch of super light applications, but my respect for this project has never diminished.

SS4 · 2010-12-23 16:36:24

ANOKNUSA wrote:

I switched from GNOME to KDE about 8 months ago (about the same time I left Ubuntu behind...hmmm....), and I don't see myself going back. I love the advanced interface and window management features it comes with by default, and the nice little bit of eye candy it provides. I still like GNOME, though, and hope version 3 works out the way they'd like it to. It seems a lot of folks are pretty wary of its development track, and you don't have to look too hard to find some forum thread or blog post about people planning to switch to another DE or WM because of it. Of course, it took about two-and-a-half years for KDE 4 to really start maturing, too, so...

I remember the days of KDE 4.0, it wasn't too bad but certainly rather unstable especially plasma. The backlash against amarok 2.x was stronger than I remember, I never thought it was a bad player but now I'm on Clementine due to not being able to right click in amarok.

devius · 2010-12-23 22:14:40

anonymous_user wrote:

Just out of curiousity, are those specs correct?

I just looked it up since I'm a little obcessed sometimes, and it should be a core2duo between 1.8GHz to 2.2GHz and the ram should actually be DDR2@800Mhz. KDE must run really well, specially with Arch. I have an Eee PC1000H also with arch and kde and it's the best operating system I had in this computer. I'm also very impressed just how good the whole thing is (except Kmail).

ANOKNUSA · 2010-12-23 22:42:44

devius wrote:

I'm also very impressed just how good the whole thing is (except Kmail).

I think Kmail is one of the projects currently caught in the chaos of the switch-over to a pure Akonadi setup. I've never used a desktop mail client myself, but it seems this (and KOrganizer, KAddressBook, etc.) are all in a weird state of flux, and seem really cluttered at the moment.

archer108 · 2010-12-23 22:57:53

oh yes tryed KDE4 a while ago and you really could not use it, but know it works great..
And... did Billy Boy take these Gadgets from KDE4 for his Windows7? they just have the same appearance.

could not find a way to attach my lspci, so here it is: lspci and free -m
great Laptop for Arch, with additonal 2 GB of Ram I can run it for a other couple of years

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b6)
02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 02)
10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
18:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)

free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3952 1432 2520 0 56 610
-/+ buffers/cache: 764 3188
Swap: 486 0 486

hwkiller · 2010-12-25 06:55:59

I just recently switched from GNOME to KDE as well.

Previously I had tried KDE4 multiple times, but wound up just -Rns'ing it and going back to GNOME within about 20 minutes of use.
A few days ago I realized that I have customized GNOME so much and use so many non-gnome programs that I'm basically only using gnome panel. Besides, I never got a full grasp on the Plasma concept... so I tried KDE again. This time I stuck with it for longer and I think I'll be sticking with it for a while. I still prefer the look and feel of GNOME to be honest... KDE still feels bloated and unnecessarily large (physically... it looks way too spacious), while GNOME seems to feel less bloated and is more space-conservative... but Plasma is pretty awesome to say the least. Realistically, I know that even GNOME is pretty bloated when compared to my Openbox installation... but it doesn't feel or look like it to me.

Anyway, thus far, I'm finally impressed by KDE.

Watermel0n · 2010-12-25 10:37:53

I love KDE but the problem is that it uses a lot of RAM and CPU. My machine is ~5 years old, so it is hard for me to use KDE without some lags. Therefore I am currently using GNOME with some KDE applications. But I will surely use KDE when I get a new PC.

devius · 2010-12-25 17:12:43

hwkiller wrote:

KDE still feels bloated and unnecessarily large (physically... it looks way too spacious), while GNOME seems to feel less bloated and is more space-conservative...

It depends on how you configure it to look. Here's an example of my dolphin tailored to suit the typical 1024x600 netbook resolution:

I could have included the information panel below the places one, but I prefer the tooltips option for showing extra information.

PS: This is the output of free -m after the above screenshot was taken with 3 chromium tabs open. I'm running apache and mysql as well.

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2007 1573 434 0 62 1032
-/+ buffers/cache: 477 1529
Swap: 517 0 517

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