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Re: Porr guys
by Diederik van der Boor on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @05:44

> And yet, according to widespread online polls, GNOME is currently the more popular of the two DEs.

Online polls at GNOME sites I presume? :-P
Since I'm reading polls where KDE still has a larger market share in the Linux destkop.

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Re: Porr guys
by Anon on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @07:28

"Online polls at GNOME sites I presume? :-P"

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html

Publicised widely, including here on the Dot (skewing results towards KDE, if anything). Over 38000 respondents, checked for uniqueness of IP addresses.

"Since I'm reading polls where KDE still has a larger market share in the Linux destkop."

Links?

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Re: Porr guys
by Narishma on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @07:45

It was also publicized on big sites like digg which are infested with Ubuntu users, so it doesn't prove much either way.

You can't really measure the "desktop share" of OSS desktops anyway so why bother.

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Re: Porr guys
by Tim on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @11:29

I remember that poll. It basically came down to a shouting match --- "Hey everyone on #kde! There's a poll about which desktop is the BESTEST! Everyone go and vote for KDE!" --- and was hence useless.

A better way of gauging use would be to check the package download stats of a distro that installs neither desktop by default. Maybe debian?

Alternatively poll people at a desktop-neutral linux event. Even so that may have bias towards the more hacker-friendly desktop (whichever that is!)

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Re: Porr guys
by stats on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @12:14

The only reliable poll would measure those who switched gnome<->kde and stayed switched. That way you are talking about individuals who have experienced both and made an informed decision (uninfluenced by biases in the original installation).

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Re: Porr guys
by Andreas Pietzowski on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @11:59

> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html

Never trust statistics where one bar with 14% is taller than another 14% bar and also never ever trust a statistic where the background labeling differs from the values in the statstic bars! ;-)

SCNR
Pietz

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Re: Porr guys
by Erik on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @05:01

Yeah, that poll makes a good laugh. They must have been drunk when they made those graphs!

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Re: Porr guys
by Richard on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @14:49

KDE is better, Gnome is better. Does it really matter? That is one of the thngs that nearly put me off the linux community when I was looking to make the switch from windows. Personally when someone I know wants to move to linux, I don't tell them which to use, I just give them the links to both the live cd's of opensuse gnome and kde and tell them to find which best suits them. Then I tell them that they should also try out the different distro's until they find which suits them. I get tired of the which desktop is better, which distro is better and I find it really puts people off linux

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