Kde v gnome

[Alan Dacey]

Paul Clark wrote:
> I have an agp x 1300 --- 256 -- I know I have a dinosaur box ;p- -- what 
> is xubuntu desktop --- I have the kubuntu shell with both gnome and kde 
> sessions installed. do they play well together? meaning, if I install 
> wine under gnome it will be there in kde?

The different desktops could be looked at as ways of using linux.  They all 
bring different things to the table, gnome-ugly but works, kde-rocks and looks 
good, xfce-fugly but works well on old machines, etc  You can install them all 
and they will all work no matter which one you log into.  The only thing is that 
your menus will have duplicate things in them.  Like having two package 
managers, synaptic from gnome and adept from kde.  You can either keep them or 
edit the menus, it is your choice.
What you install is installed on the machine and any desktop you use will be 
able to access it.
Xubuntu desktop is the ubuntu version of the xfce desktop 'shell'.  You can 
think of it basically as selected parts of the gnome desktop.  It is recommended 
if you have an old machine and it cannot handle what you are throwing at it, 
like WoW on wine.  It uses very little cpu power and memory to run so you have 
more left over for your applications.

gnome   ubuntu
kde     kubuntu
xfce    xubuntu

Alan
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