Whichever you prefer. KDE or GNOME are the usual choices, although I prefer Fluxbox or Blackbox myself . . . XFCE, FVWM ICEWM, there are lots of window managers. Stick to the one you are most familiar with. By "plain Linux" you probably mean GNOME, which should be fine.
Larry V
2007-10-04 14:28:29 UTC
KDE provides you a graphical interface. "plain" linux would be just with a command line. That works well if you are familar with linux itself. But in general, most people want some sort of graphical interface. At least one alternative is the GNOME interface that comes with many distributions of linux.
The differences between KDE and GNOME are visually distinctive, but functionally similar.
It's the hair
2007-10-04 14:24:21 UTC
Linux is linux, KDE is just a graphical environment that runs on linux. There really isn't a comparison here. I'd personally stick to the console for linux servers and leave the graphical environment for workstations
geegeebee_17
2007-10-04 14:24:51 UTC
I use GNOME.
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