I've been playing around.

ChrisC

Does any one notice that KDE is less stable than Gnome. I find Gnome
crashes less and is a lot more solid. This isn't Gnome Vs KDE debate,
just an observation.

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ChrisC

Martin Gregorie

Wim Cossement wrote:
> Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> I was happy to drink Jupilier (especially in the Falstaff) when I was
>> working in Brussels but a Belgian friend classed anything that wasn't
>> Trappist or Abbaile as "industrial beer" and wouldn't touch it. I also
>> liked Chimay Bleu a lot.
>
> Well thats a bit snobby if you ask me!
> It's also the first time I'm confronted with such a point of view and I
> must say that your friend is talking crap.
>
Thanks for the correction. BTW, I didn't say I agreed with him! I have
many happy memories of sitting with friends, drinking Jupiler,
especially outside the beer tent at a model flying meeting on the air
force firing range up the road from Hasselt (at Heltcheren? - its been a
while).

> And last but not least: if you go out and only drink Duvel, Chimaym or
> Chimay Blue for instance you'll get quite ****ed up in the end but with
> normal beers it's easier to move larger quantities! :-p
>
I had noticed that effect!


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Bit Twister

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:53:26 +0000, ChrisC wrote:
> Does any one notice that KDE is less stable than Gnome. I find Gnome
> crashes less and is a lot more solid. This isn't Gnome Vs KDE debate,
> just an observation.

Change distributions. I run Mandriva Linux and yet to have a crash.

I recommend you boot a rescue cd and run memtest overnight.

Dan C

On 2007-12-07, ChrisC wrote:
> Does any one notice that KDE is less stable than Gnome. I find Gnome
> crashes less and is a lot more solid. This isn't Gnome Vs KDE debate,
> just an observation.

I'd score this a 1.25 (out of 10) on the Troll-O-Meter.


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Alan_C

ChrisC wrote:

> Does any one notice that KDE is less stable than Gnome. I find Gnome
> crashes less and is a lot more solid. This isn't Gnome Vs KDE debate,
> just an observation.

"Just an observation" (based on personal experience) is what is next:

Slackware 12.0 with KDE is rock solid, never crashes. I use it a lot.

I also recently have begun to and been using Debian Etch who's default
desktop is Gnome. In Etch, the few times that I used KDE it worked fine,
did not have a problem. The Gnome has not had any crash related issue or
problem.

I've not run KDE all that much in Etch (so as to compare it to the stability
that I've found in Slackware 12.0's KDE).

I've a couple 18 gig scsi hard drives. Slack 12.0 is on one. Debian Etch
is on the other. So far, Slack 12.0 gets booted more often than Etch does.

I had been a Slack only user for a few years or longer. Then I got around
to it to try/learn/use Debian just so as to get a better all around
perspective for myself of some Linux distros. I also keep/maintain CentOS
Linux on a friend's box but I don't use CentOS myself other than what it
takes for me to support my friend's machine.

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Martin Gregorie

Sanukk wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:11:40 +0100, Wim Cossement wrote:
>
>> What kind of beer?
>
> It's got to be Singha:
>
> Wonderful Thai beer, love the stuff :^>
>
If one must drink lagers I don't think anything can beat Urquell Pils.
It comes from Plzen in the Czech Republic, the town that gave its name
to the style of beer. Its readily available in the UK.

I prefer a good, hoppy English bitter to anything else. Hook Norton or
Morland's Speckled Hen will do nicely.


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Dirk T. Verbeek

ChrisC wrote:
> Does any one notice that KDE is less stable than Gnome. I find Gnome
> crashes less and is a lot more solid. This isn't Gnome Vs KDE debate,
> just an observation.
>
Hmm, am I feeding a troll?

Anyway, I only use KDE as in Kubuntu and yet I can compare it with Gnome.
That's because KDE does not crash, I've seen the odd application with a
problem but not KDE itself that's causing trouble.

Darrell Stec

ChrisC wrote:

> Does any one notice that KDE is less stable than Gnome. I find Gnome
> crashes less and is a lot more solid. This isn't Gnome Vs KDE debate,
> just an observation.
>

Personal experience is not exactly a reliable measure. For instance when an
application crashes for me, more often than not is it a Gnome application.

It probably depends more upon whether you are using stable apps or cutting
edge and also which versions of the dependancy files are installed too.

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Darrell Stec

Mark South wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:27:05 +0000, Dan C wrote:
>
>> On 2007-12-07, ChrisC wrote:
>>> Does any one notice that KDE is less stable than Gnome. I find Gnome
>>> crashes less and is a lot more solid. This isn't Gnome Vs KDE debate,
>>> just an observation.
>>
>> I'd score this a 1.25 (out of 10) on the Troll-O-Meter.
>
> Trolls get weaker towards the weekend as their beer levels drop.
>
> So, did we ever definitively decide which is better, emacs or vi?
>
> Mark

No. The discussion got sidelined by the Nano advocates.

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Geoffrey Clements

"Dirk T. Verbeek" <> wrote in message
news:4758f352$0$230$...
> ChrisC wrote:
>> Does any one notice that KDE is less stable than Gnome. I find Gnome
>> crashes less and is a lot more solid. This isn't Gnome Vs KDE debate,
>> just an observation.
>>
> Hmm, am I feeding a troll?
>

I don't think so ChrisC has been around here before but only this year, I
think - assuming it's the same ChrisC of course!

> Anyway, I only use KDE as in Kubuntu and yet I can compare it with Gnome.
> That's because KDE does not crash, I've seen the odd application with a
> problem but not KDE itself that's causing trouble.

I'm a long time KDE user with the occasional dip into Gnome. I find both
to be excellent but with a different emphasis on the type of user it's
trying to attract which keeps me anchored to KDE (or XFCE if I'm feeling in
an austere mood). As for stability - never really had a problem since KDE
1.3 (or was it 1.4 - I'm too old for such feats of memory!). I see the
occasional traceback usually coincidiing with closing an application but, as
Dirk says, I believe this to be the application not KDE.

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