bjoswald Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I thought girls would be attracted more to KDE than Gnome because of all the eye candy, the silly dragon mascot, and bright, colorful icons. Gnome has that dirty, plain, "keep it simple" aesthetic to it that would bore women in minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran Posted November 9, 2008 Author Veteran Share Posted November 9, 2008 I thought girls would be attracted more to KDE than Gnome because of all the eye candy, the silly dragon mascot, and bright, colorful icons. Gnome has that dirty, plain, "keep it simple" aesthetic to it that would bore women in minutes. There are people out there who find feet to be quite erotic. I'm up for giving a foot massage and what goes with that but I don't think my choice of Gnome is based on a foot fetish (though I fully respect those out there who want to express their fetishism for feet). :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalE Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I prefer Gnome... Is there something wrong with me? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morficus Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 A girl use Linux? my thoughts exactly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I prefer feet as well... I mean Gnome. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Behemoth Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I would definitely think the opposite - KDE is way to eye-candyish for a guy...Gnome seems more professional, more polished. Typically (no offense) I wonder why a guy would use KDE with all of the cartoon looking icons and such... but to each their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budious Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 KDE4 (for men?) Made me not regret opening this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 9, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted November 9, 2008 What an odd analogy. Last time I checked desktop environments didn't have a gender? My take on it: KDE - offers tons of settings to tinker with - great for males who enjoy tinkering with stuff. Gnome - limits the number of settings you can fiddle with - great for females who just want things to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C++ Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I would definitely think the opposite - KDE is way to eye-candyish for a guy...Gnome seems more professional, more polished. Typically (no offense) I wonder why a guy would use KDE with all of the cartoon looking icons and such... but to each their own. Yeah, I used KDE for a while, but I eventually got sick of it. I then just went to Gnome and stuck with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capr Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 never met anyone using KDE... but i always thought the baby blue colors are more girly. and yes you are mad. lets backup a second. girl using linux? who is forcing her? haha now that's sexist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Blue01 Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I never met a girl who uses Linux, MacOS yes quite a few. I like KDE, its so pretty, Gnome is so... rigid :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJerman Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 Yeah, I'd definitely think the opposite. KDE is all bubbly and pretty whereas Gnome is clean. I can't stand using KDE. Gnome all the way. But then... you can't argue with letters that have penises I suppose. *shrug* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 I never thought about it but I met a girl who uses KDE and it seemed a strange choice... for a girl. I don't want to sound sexist but I guess I thought KDE was more 'masculine' than Gnome. If she'd have been using Gnome, I wouldn't have thought about it at all. What do you think? Am I mad? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 What about XFCE? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doli Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 :huh: Yea that pretty much sums up this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran Posted November 11, 2008 Author Veteran Share Posted November 11, 2008 What about XFCE? :p The X of course means X-rated ('porn'). XFCE is therefore the porn-lovers distro. ;) Sorry for the thread dudes. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redvamp128 Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 If you like XFCE -- then you will like LXDE... http://lxde.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTD Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 I never met a girl who uses Linux, MacOS yes quite a few. I like KDE, its so pretty, Gnome is so... rigid :) OS X is very popular with the ladies. Any time I drop by the local Apple Store, it's usually full of women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted November 11, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 11, 2008 If you like XFCE -- then you will like LXDE...http://lxde.org/ <snip image> You mean if you like Openbox, then you will like lxde. LXDE is Openbox. Add in a pretty theme. Include a word processor. Voila! You have an over-rated (in my opinion) environment, since it is really just Openbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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