I wonder why a Gnome lover and a WM zealot switched to KDE but it feels right! Using KDE4 and giving my "vote for change" here.

I dislike KDE for a few reasons;

• It reminds me of Windows, which I am not a very big fan of.
• It is slow, at least on my computer.
• I dislike the K-- uniformity. I prefer diversity.
• The UI takes a few seconds to a minute to fully initialize.
• GTK is far better than Qt
• It isn't now, but it once had a much more restrictive license.
• It is bloated, and offers too many useless options, thereby unnecessarily complicating otherwise simplistic options
• Has idiotic idiosyncrasies, like a slow menu, and difficulty doing otherwise mundane tasks.

The only time I can get KDE to be even close to fast is when I installed Arch Linux and a minimal install of KDE. *sigh* Still too slow.

I like GNOME because;

• Simple, and easy.
• Fast UI initialization; instantaneous even.
• Diversity of programs. Is not uniform.
• It gets the job done. Won't get in the way.
• GTK. Themes too.
• Isn't bloated; in fact a bit minimal.
• It reminds me that I am not using Windows.
• I have used it for 4 years, and it was my 1st Desktop Environment.
• GNU and open-source beginning.

The only reason I dislike GNOME is because of Gconf, which resembles the registry editor in Windows. I'm not a particularly big fan of string data as a means of customization.

This is my opinion of course. I just can't get used to KDE no matter how hard I try. *sigh* I will faithfully stick by GNOME until KDE gets a bit faster, and loses the annoying, bloated, uniformity.

Well, I always loved using kde 3.5, it was beautiful and really worked.

When kde4 arrived, I just ignored it.

BUT when kde4.3 arrived and I tried it,
man, what a dream!

Besides Dolphin, kde4.3 works fine and is paradise for my eyes!

AFAIK, it's xfce all the way

I love KDE

XFCE. It has most of the features that are available in Gnome and KDE without all of the bloat. XFCE just keeps getting better and better in the time I have been using it.

I like to keep my system as beautiful as possible. KDE was really awesome. I tried gnome also. it's like just an old movie. I know that, we can get good looks for gnome also. but it is waste of time. by default KDE giving nice features.

2009, The year I came back home to KDE!

I want to see more done with lighter desktops such as LXDE and xfce...


They need more work and I would like to use a lighter desktop full time just doesn't give me so of the same options as Gnome/KDE...

KDE allowed me change theme easily. like login KDM theme, visual themes etc. I love it

I am an Xfce junkie !!

I know that I have downloaded every Linux distro that uses Xfce as it's default desktop.

I presently have a tri-boot on my PC with:

Debian Squeeze (testing) with Xfce
Xubuntu-Lucid Lynx 10.04 Alpha 2 (development)
and LinuxMint-8 with the Xfce package installed over Gnome.

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rox

kde4 gives me diarrhea from just looking at it.

What an intelligent comment. It implies that you do not posses the ability to change a default theme. Or, conversely, you are weaker than average people, been unable to confront a simple and easy desktop theme. Very sad for a public confession...

I used to prefer to use KDE (I grew up with a lot of "KDE" distros...Mandrake, Mandriva, dabbled in PCLinuxOS, when I installed Gentoo, I got KDE)...but when I got into Linux Mint, I really got into gnome.

And when KDE 4 came out, I anticipated liking the look and feel, but it didn't seem very usable. I have no doubt that I didn't spend enough time with it, but it was such a chore.

I like xfce a bit too, but for some reason I've never mainly used it.

How about none? Does none work for you?

I typically install minimal systems with no GUI components at all, and I really don't like installing or activating web management interfaces either. CLI is sufficient for all my Linux/BSD/Unix boxes. But, then, my desktop is a Mac. One GUI to rule them all.