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Re: Told you so : )
by dave on Wednesday 13/Mar/2002, @07:26

If this is true then there must be now be a huge number of people using linux on the desktop, because a guy from ximian seemed to think that they had at least 800000 users (not including those installing from cd etc), and i would guess that substantially more people use standard gnome than ximian gnome (because it isn't included with any distro that i know of) if kde then had more than twice as many users as those 2 combine it would be very impressive. It is a shame that it cannot be tested properly though - most distros include gnome and kde, and surveys are notoriousely unreliable at finding out what (the majority of) people actually use.

Either way, well done to KDE. I use ximian gnome myself but am glad to see progress being made by all the desktops.

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Re: Told you so : )
by keith on Wednesday 13/Mar/2002, @13:36

Am I the only person in penguinland that switches between kde, gnome, and assorted other desktops the way some people change shoes?

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Re: Told you so : )
by Rayiner Hashem on Thursday 14/Mar/2002, @14:54

Yes.

Don't you have better ways to spend your time?

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Re: Told you so : )
by Jaassu on Thursday 14/Mar/2002, @21:58

You are not the only one who likes use different desktops, even that I
like kde the most at the moment.

Jaassu

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Re: Told you so : )
by Andreas on Friday 15/Mar/2002, @01:44

I also switch all the time! it depends on what I should do! if I should do something quick .. then I use gnome becouse it have a almost zero loading time compared to kde. But If I know that I will sit infront of the computer for a while then I use kde most often.

I hope that kde3 fixes the loading times!

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Re: Told you so : )
by rinse on Wednesday 13/Mar/2002, @15:04

Not everyone that downloads something actually uses it.

Kind regards, Rinse

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Re: Told you so : )
by dave on Wednesday 13/Mar/2002, @19:13

no, but they have this nice thing called red-carpet - i guess they get their numbers from people who use that. (don't know for sure though)

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Re: Told you so : )
by Craig on Wednesday 13/Mar/2002, @16:05

There fudgeing there numbers by claiming downloads are equal to users. Gnome is lo buggy i've had to download it many times.

Craig

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Re: Told you so : )
by Sotf on Thursday 14/Mar/2002, @01:45

Then report this instead of whining about it. Do you think this is a common problem that occurs very often? And that the GNOME developers just sit there and do nothing about it?
No, it's a rare problem, that's why it hasn't been fixed yet. So don't complain and send a bugreport. Do you think the developers can read your mind?

And for your information: GNOME has almost never crashed once on my system. KDE crash a little more often (though still significantly less than Windows crashes).

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Re: Told you so : )
by Andy Goossens on Thursday 14/Mar/2002, @05:12

If you're using RedHat...
It's old news that KDE crashes easily on RedHat, caused by bad packages. RH is GNOME-centric and doesn't care about KDE.

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And that is...
by protoman on Thursday 14/Mar/2002, @09:16

TRUE! So true I changed almost all my kde rpms from rh's ones to mdk ones (kept some kdemultimedia and arts because mdk uses alsa).
The worse problem is with -devel packages that misses some files or have differences from normal kde packages. I could not compile xmms-kde and other kde apps for a looooooooong time.

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Re: And that is...
by Erik Unemyr on Thursday 14/Mar/2002, @13:08

I have also not been able to compile KDE apps on mdk for a long time, and I DO
have all the devel rpms properly..some kind of thing with QT:speech API
function missing when running the configure scripts...

Just never realized why, and installing new versions of the rpm packages just
doesn't help...anyone have a solution?

I guess this is totally off subject...sorry guys,
but it was an important question to me..

/Erik

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Re: And that is...
by anonymous on Friday 15/Mar/2002, @09:06

yeah, all true
some packages are even wrong at all: their kdevelop doesn't work, it has been badly patched.

but i have to say that the quality improved lately, though i think they're still not packaging KDE with all the seriousness they should. Bero is doing hard work on this, but he should listen to comments people send him.

if you look for KDE/QT packages for RH, have a look either at http://www.freshrpms.net/ or http://www.nikosoft.net/rpms/ that have a few of them.

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Re: Told you so : )
by Dean Pannell (a.k.a. dinotrac) on Thursday 14/Mar/2002, @09:17

Well, let's see:

I saw somewhere that something like half a billion people now have internet access.
If we accept some of the pessimisitic estimates of Linux use, which come in around 2% of the total, that makes for about 10 million users.

May not be a big percentage, but that's a buncha people.

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