GNOME or KDE

[excuzzzeme]

Hoping for some clarification. If KDE and GNOME are desktop displays just 2 different methods of building a better mousetrap, does one have advantages over the other? Or am I mis-understanding what they are?

I have been playing around with Ububtu and am not happy with it as it seems drastically slow. I have also played around with DSL (yes, I know it's lightweight), and have found that I like it better and everything seems to run faster on it, even when I add a variety of applications it seems to still out perform Ubuntu.

I am testing different "flavors" to see which one gives best performance speeds on this old box that was given to me. PIII, 950mhz, 512RAM, floppy, cd-rom, 1-30G HDD 1-40G HDD. Just trying out different ideas including turning it into a web-server or something to learn more about Linux on.

Really not much different in the command syntax structure than was in the DOS systems. More a matter of learning device names and command names more than anything else from what I have thus far learned. Been quite a long time since I played around with DOS but find it strikingly similar.

I can remember getting transfered and with each transfer having to learn new machines, device names, etc. Glad some of those days are gone.

[paul9]

Personally, I prefer KDE although Gnome seemed more polished in terms of those nice little features last time I used it. If you want more speed on older hardware, then consider IceWM, Fluxbox or one of the other "light" window managers.