The Linux Experiment Podcast #2: What the Hell [Desktop Environments]?!
Hosts: Dana H, Dave L, Jon F, Phil D, Sasha D & Tyler B
Missing in action: Jake B
Show length: 0:40:11
Description:
The second podcast from the guys at The Linux Experiment. In this episode we discuss our experiences with switching desktop environments.
In this episode:
- What our experiences switching desktop environments has been like (GNOME vs KDE vs XFCE).
- Clarification of Dana’s post.
- Our personal pros and cons of each desktop environment.
- What the hell Linux? A segment where we vent some of our frustrations.
Music:
“City Lights At Night“ by Revolution Void found on Free Music Archive here.
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Previously I was running KDE 4.3.3 on top of Fedora 11 (for the first experiment) and KDE 4.6.5 on top of Gentoo (for the second experiment).
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