[ale] KDE, Gnome, XFCE OT?

[Damon L. Chesser]

OK, Since I really don't want to hijack (ok, I do, just a little bit) anybody 
else's thread:

I started out on KDE and it was pretty good.  But having three ways to get to 
every piece of software was pretty strange for a newbie.  I never was sure 
where an app was stored or the actual name for it.

I moved to Gnome and found it simple, and yet very capable of complex 
customization.

Then someone decided to fix KDE and it became un-usable (to me).

OK, that simplified my life, I will just use Gnome.  Then Gnome was fixed.

It became unusable to me.

I will use XFCE.  It IS pretty good, but, and yet, it lacks a coherent thread 
for all apps.

Unity.  well, it's better than Gnome shell (tm).  Gnome shell.  well, its 
Gnome Shell, what gnome became after someone fixed what was a perfectly usable 
interface.

What's wrong with a menu?  I like Menus.  I don't like typing and hoping that, 
somehow, I will remember the correct name of some app.  Everybody wants to 
make a computer interface that will work on a mobile device.  Why?  I expect 
my computer to be a computer and my mobile device to be, well, a mobile 
device.  Completely different use case.

If you use Gnome, and install a dock, like docky (to simple) or Cario dock, it 
then becomes usable in terms of productivity.

Oh, but wait, now I can't use Gnome because I break with Canon and use 
proprietary drivers, and no, before  you ask, open drivers do NOT compare to 
the performance levels in either processing 3d graphics nor in just making the 
desktop "Pop".  GDM does not work with ATI drivers.

so.  16 years after I started, I am trying out KDE Plasma. JUST installed. 
This is typed in Kmail, one of my former past favorites of all desktop email 
apps (so much so, I used to install KDE PIM in xfce4).  First impressions are 
pretty good.  Do you know, it actually has menus.?  I shall see what I think 
in a week or two.

After I install Catalyst drivers in Fedora 23.  Excuse me for liking to unwind 
by killing a few random bad guy/zombies and actually having a frame rate that 
makes it seamless.

One more thing,  GET OFF MY GRASS!

*opinions expressed are those of the author.  Views differing from those 
expressed are understood to be wrong and with out subjective merit.
-- 
Damon
damon at damtek.com