Is Fedora 12 KDE faster than Fedora 12 GNOME?

[Gaurav Prabhu]

I have tried out both - Fedora 12 KDE & Fedora 12 GNOME on the system in my signature. I had been always reading that GNOME is for older computers with less resources while KDE is for newer system which have oodles of processing power. I don't know but for me Fedora 12 KDE is more faster & responsive than Fedora 12 GNOME. Do any of you guys have ever felt the same?

[smurffit]

I guess, they are both equal. But there are much faster desktops outside there. ;)

[marcrblevins]

I had been always reading that GNOME is for older computers with less resources while KDE is for newer system which have oodles of processing power. I don't know but for me Fedora 12 KDE is more faster & responsive than Fedora 12 GNOME. Do any of you guys have ever felt the same?

Disagreed.
KDE and GNOME can be use on any PC if it meets the minimal system requirements. Those that are under, could use LXDE or XFCE instead.

FYI:
GNOME will be in a major revamp soon.
Whenever the new GNOME is release, then to your comparisons.

[Gaurav Prabhu]

I have tried Fedora 12 LXDE spin too on my system but apart from fast system responsiveness I found it to be no good. It consumed around 160MB RAM on idle while GNOME & KDE both consumed approximately 170MB RAM. But later I got bored off it & came back to GNOME.

Any idea when will the new GNOME 3 be released?

[pankajp]

I have tried Fedora 12 LXDE spin too on my system but apart from fast system responsiveness I found it to be no good. It consumed around 160MB RAM on idle while GNOME & KDE both consumed approximately 170MB RAM. But later I got bored off it & came back to GNOME.

Any idea when will the new GNOME 3 be released?

Dont expect anything better from it. I've tried the gnome-shell and the mutter window decorator consumes lot of ram.

[leigh123linux]

Thread closed, do a forum search for Kde vs Gnome.