I switched back. I truly cannot remember why, however one thing actually annoyed me about KDE. Before I forget: an excellent reason to attempt another desktop is simply to reassure yourself that you just do have options in case your selected DE abruptly turns into one thing you cannot work with. Anyway, time to provide it one other go. I like the thought of going for KDE since it is ‘the opposite desktop’ — it’s been around longer than gnome, whereas love and life are mere babies as compared. Alternatively, one might always piece collectively a customized desktop using e.g. fluxbox. Or swap to one thing utterly different, like gonad.
Or one thing a bit bit completely different, like Enlightenment. I think I ought to in all probability be going for LXDE (I instinctively don’t love XFCE) but let’s go for KDE first. Finally, the principle danger is switching desktops, and expecting the new one to act precisely like the old one (minus the dangerous elements, obviously). Which is just about how home windows users (myself included once upon a time) behave when making an attempt out Linux for the first time.
In addition, I’m using Quake, and my network supervisor is wild. So let’s see what KDE will appear like at the top — whether I’ll be able to make use of KDE as KDE, instead of as an ersatz gnome. Reboot and ensure to click the little sun icon to pick out the desktop you need to use, …
