GNOME

[Tim Schmidt]

I've used KDE for a while, and am now familiar enough with it to realize 
most of it's shortcomings (in usability and features).  Although most of my 
gripes may be fixed in KDE 2.0, I'm trying out the latest version of GNOME.  
So far, I have fired up the installer (probably the second easiest install 
I've ever done, next to the GIMP).  It's incredibly easy, intuitive, and 
even pretty.  It's currently 28% done downloading componenets and moving 
pretty quickly over my 56k modem, a person on ISDN, Cable, or DSL would have 
no problem whatsoever installing it in real-time.

If you want to get started, go to www.gnome.org, click on "get GNOME" and 
follow the instructions.  This might be old news, I just found it and 
decided to try it out.  I'll let everyone know what I think about it -- from 
the perspective of a long time Windows victim ;) and 6 month old Linux user, 
of which only the last few weeks (meybe a month or two, depending on your 
definition) have been serious.

So far, this looks to me to be a quantum leep in installing a desktop 
environment, if only installing XFree86 4.0 were as easy.  That reminds me, 
can anyone explain in simple terms how to de-activate (uninstall) XFree86 
3.3.6 and install XFree86 4.0 in it's place?  I have been using the 
graphical login on my distro, but would be willing to give that up for the 
newer X server, and accelerated drivers that go with it.

--Tim
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