GNOME vs KDE vs Others: Which do you prefer?

Eeek. Looks like I'm steering clear of KDE for just awhile longer then.

different / less dependencies, less feature-rich, less code.


have a look: http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/deskt ... hmark.html

Am I reading that right, Gnome is a bigger resource hog than KDE ?

not sure, i didn't read it :-X but follow his process & see for yourself? if a couple of us do it, we could probably figure it out >.<

altho all those are like what, 10 versions ago? he also says KDE has his custom performance patches. it's also interesting to note that KDE with whatever K application (i.e. konqueror, kword, ..) "consumed" the least amount of memory in comparison, but when those applications were run in other desktop/wm's the K apps consumed the most memory.

In my experience with KDE, it seemed to crash far more often than Gnome or any other desktop environment. I like KDE's look and feel much more than I like Gnome's, but it just "feels unstable" to me. Kinda hard to explain.

All of this being said, my main experience is with KDE 3.x. I haven't played around with KDE 4 a lot.

It simply doesn't do as much. XFCE contains less features and bloat, and thus uses less resources.