> ok, well, i've had it with kde and am going back to gnome.  i have 
> experimented with it for a few weeks now (seems like months). for the 
> basic desktop stupid user (/yo/),  it is not as friendly as gnome. also, 
> it has independently crashed about 3 times now.  this last time it just 
> kept making konquerer windows open up. got up to 32 before i was able to 
> shut it down.
> 
> so if you're setting up linux for your mom, give her a break and use 
> gnome ;-)

Sorry to hear you were having issues with KDE.  On systems that I've admin'd, I 
prefer to install KDE and haven't had any issues with it (RH8, RH9, Gentoo).