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Journal The Great Wakka's Journal: GNOME v WMaker v KDE

Recently, I've more or less abandoned my old favorite WindowMaker in favor of GNOME. But I decided to do a fair comparison of three desktops/window managers, in order to see if I'm right. All ratings out of 10.

GNOME 1.4/Sawfish
Desktop: Looks Nice! Nautilius does a good job of making it very intuative. 8
Window Borders: I think that the default Window Borders need help. Windows clone #392439... NEXT! But you can customise the borders, however, that's a bit confusing.4
Speed: Mixed. Loading is rather slow, but once you actually have it up and running, it's fine. 6
App Launch: The panel is nice, and so is the desktop. Flexible. 7
"Feel": GNOME feels very nice. I happen to love the appearance of GTK+. 9
Stability: Some clipping problems when resizing complex windows (Mozilla), but overall pretty good. 7
Overall: It's nice, if a little over-built. 8

Window Maker
Desktop: As simple as they come. Clean, fast, efficient. 7
Window Borders: No... Maximize... Button! GRRRR! 4
Speed: This is one of the single fastest WMs I've ever seen. 8
App Launch: You have a limited number of "dock spaces" or you can use the menu. If you want to use the nifty clip, you're out of luck, because the apps there are not omnipotent throughout the desktops. It's cumbersome. 5
"Feel": Smooth as butter. Sometimes, the illusion is broken by various little inconsitancies, such as the way the dock spaces shade. 7
Stability: It is beta. Keep reminding yourself of that. Keys "lock", it crashes for apparent reason, and not everything works right. 3
Overall: Very Minimalist and smooth. I'll come back to it once it's version 1.0. 7

KDE 2
Desktop: Lacks beautiful, resizable icons of GNOME, cleaness of WMaker. 6
Speed: Slow. Everything about it is slow. It takes 1 minute to load, apps are slow. I blame QT. 3
Window Borders: I think I'm going to staple myself to death. KDE 1 had nice, clean, customizable window borders. KDE 2 is a shiriveled mess. Yes, there are "skins", but it's not the same.4
App Launch: More or less the same as GNOME. 7
"Feel": Nasty. QT looks horrible on my system, the fonts with the RENDER extenstion look wrong and oversized, as well as ugly. Without RENDER, the fonts are chopped up. The whole thing feels like you've been hit on the head. 2
Stability: As solid as water. It crashes (not some weird bug, CRASHES) apps all the time, and non-KDE apps as well as KDE apps. 4
Overall: Needs work. And I hate QT. 4

These ratings probably aren't that accurate. I would have included more reviews, but then this journal would have been REALLY long.

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