Just wondering how many people changed window managers, for example from kde->gnome, or gnome->kde, or gnome-> fluxbox... and so on

Personaly, When I was new to linux I used gnome, because I thought kde was a windows copy. I learned a lot about linux using gnome because of the lack of automated graphical configuration programs. This was great, but eventually I was not interested in learning more, I wanted things to be simple. So I switched to KDE. From then on, kde has been my main DE, exept on bad hardware where i use xfce or fluxbox

What about WindowMaker?

RedHat 6.0 was my first ever Linux experience. It's default was Gnome with Enlightenment. It worked well, if a tad confusing. You had to adjust the volume in two separate settings dialogs. It also came with KDE v1.x, which was pretty crappy by comparison.

I changed to KDE when they released version 2.0.0, by which time I had also switched to Slackware. After a few months with KDE, I experimented with Windowmaker and stayed with it until KDE 3.0.0 came out. I'm still using KDE to this day.

DEs are a funny thing. Generally speaking, people either love them or hate them.

lol scratch my vote. i voted wrong. I got it backwards. I went from Gnome to fluxbox, not vice versa.

During the GNOME 1.x days I mostly used GNOME but after the introduction of KDE 3.x and GNOME 2.x, I switched to KDE. I can't really get myself to like GNOME 2.x very much because of the lack of features due to the simplicity thing although it looks good.

Laptop:
I started my linux venture on my laptop and began with GNOME. I used it for a few months and decided that I could configure KDE much much easier than GNOME. Plus to me, GTK is... "cheap-looking" for lack of better words. So I stick with KDE whenever possible.

Desktop:
This desktop has 160MB of RAM. It does not take to KDE very well. It used to crash all the time when I had Fedora on it. So I used GNOME when I used the machine. When I installed Slackware, KDE ran without crashing, but it was dog slow and for how incredibly little I care for GNOME, installing it wasn't an option for me. So I tried all the managers with which Slackware came and found that xfce really did it for me. It flies on that computer. It uses GTK, but it's not so horribly ugly to me... and it's more configurable to me.

The only other one that I usually look at every so often is Fluxbox. I find this unnecessarily difficult to configure for my tastes. I'm always attracted to the features vs. performace aspect of fluxbox but it's just ridiculous. I'd rather spend all that time configuring the OS rather than how I use the window manager. One of these days I'll have an outrageous amount of time to doodle with it and maybe get it to where I can use it. It would surely be excellent to have the older machine fly again.

I started using KDE since the begining of my linux experience (about 3 years ago) and ocasionally switched to GNOME; but since some months ago I suddenly got awfully bored of KDE and now I only use GNOME (except when I'm on Elive which uses Enlightenment, a WM I really like).

I switched from fluxbox to fvwm. I like the look and feel of fluxbox but wasn't a fan of the developers or their goals so I switched to fvwm and wrote a config that could easily be mistaken for fluxbox

I think when I started using Linux, I used KDE and then quickly switched to GNOME. Eventually, I started using Xfce, but have used Fluxbox along the way too, heh. I did use KDE when I installed on my laptop several months ago, but I'm currently switching between Xfce and GNOME (Xfce in Slackware and GNOME in Debian).

From pengu:I hope you meant "on low-end hardware" or something..not "bad"

I recall using some wicked old KDE version very long time ago, I think it was some of the very earliest ones..not really sure as it's been so long ago. It wasn't too fancy looking, but it did have nice screensavers (at least one). Then at some point I bumped into Gnome, which looked uglier than a half-frozen piece of liqiud sh*t at the time, but after some versions it got better (by the way, 2.2-2.10 were horrible). Along with "good old" KDE I used plain console a lot, which helped me learn things - after all KDE did resemble Windows, and that's what I disliked.

After that I've been sailing between different versions of KDE, Gnome, XFCE, some *boxes including the infamous Fluxbox, Windowmaker, IceWM, I can't surely even say how many I've tried. Still one has overwhelmed them - terminal emulator, and better yet, no X at all. OK, I don't like trying to enjoy videos or photos in the console, but CLI does have it's benefits (for me at least).

KDE has come a good way up, Gnome too, but as it's said Gnome does seem to lack "something". It looks very good, but that's not everything I need; all the window managers around seem to be fast, but not-so-well-functioning and need a lot of tuning to get them play like I want them to. Today I'm using KDE if I desperately need some desktop environment, but in every other case I'll stick with console old me.

By the way, in my opinion there should be one more option in the poll: "CLI <-> X". After all, there are Midnight Commanders around, for example..

I began my adventures in Linux running KDE because that was the install default. I had no problems with it at all, but when I switched to SuSe 8.0 I discovered how easy it is to switch between them and from time to time used them all but remained with KDE as my default.

When I got my first laptop setup with Linux I discovered that Gnome had the least amount of trouble finding and connecting to the wireless network. So for a year or so I ran Gnome as my default.

Now that I understand the system a lot more than I did years ago, I am back to using KDE as my desktop. I just like the search features a little better and I can now see what's going on around me in the wireless world.

By the time SuSE 12.0 arrives I'll probably be using an as yet unheard of desktop

I switched from kde to xfce for about a year. I use linux (slackware) about two years and half.

I also like IceWM a lot (it's even faster than Xfce). The new Thunar file manager makes Xfce a lot nicer to use.

It's boring, again a poll missing the "none of the above" choice ...

I started with KDE. Then I switched to gnome because I thought it was neat. I switched back to KDE when GNOME defaulted to using two panels. A couple months later, I decided to give XFCE a try, and was amazed at its speed. However, It didn't have everything I wanted, so I switched back to KDE.

In short:
KDE -> GNOME
GNOME -> KDE
KDE -> XFCE
XFCE -> KDE

I started out with Gnome, and used it for about a year. After a while though, Nautilus just started to get under my skin. So I switched to KDE.