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KDE 8 80.00%
Gnome 2 20.00%
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Old 01-18-2006, 10:28 AM
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I will go for Gnome to be frank my preferred desktop is xfce4
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I have total two laptops at home both runs KDE desktop

Latest is Acer AMD Turion laptop with Debian Linux
Old is Intel Centrino with Dual boot FreeBSD and XP and Suse Linux

To be frank I am waiting for Apple India to release new dual core laptop in India. My gf has Mac G5 and Apple X OS rocks. Therefore, I m waiting for some time and then gonna get new Apple laptop
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'coz KDE looks sooooooooo beautiful muhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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KDE is not just easy to use desktop environment but it is a beautiful fashionable desktop
System. Menu and toolbars, color-schemes all are neat. Even my little son can use KDE
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Wow, apple Mac OS X someone told me that it is the best desktop out there
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I too like KDE.. !!

It is beautiful and having better look and feel as compare to GNOME..
Have you guys tried Superkaramba.. If not then try it.. it is a good sysmon tool...
I would have attached my KDE snapshots but dont know how to attach images here
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I don't think so here they support file upload stuff but you can upload image or screen using any one of the sites and just put link here:

http://flickr.com/
http://www.imageshack.us/

Look like KDE is gonna win this war
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KDE rules. One more hint you can load kde while running Gnome desktop


Just open your gnome terminal and type the command:
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startkde &
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switch from windows about month ago never even new about KDE for a couple of weeks Gnome default in fedora.
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