Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Dec 2005 09:47 UTC
Without tip-toeing around the matter, Linus Torvalds made his preference in the GNOME vs. KDE matter quite clear on the GNOME-usability list: "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE." Also, "Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'." Update: More of the discussion here.
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2005-07-09
I have used and admired both desktops and watched both develop into something amazing (XFCE has gotten quite good too).
Starting at 2.0 it seems the Gnome developers took a hard look at what they were trying to accomplish and make the desktop into something coherent, clean and elegant. Since 2.8 (IMHO), this hard work started paying off and really shows. The impression I get is they are trying to make everything work well, then gradually add features, while keeping things intuitive. Things have improved greatly (2.12.x), and the desktop is still clean (maybe even cleaner), almost zen.
Gnome is not be as feature rich as KDE, but I each targets a different type of user. KDE, feature rich, everything in your face. New features rapidly added, and gradually refined. Gnome, very usable, but more uncluttered. New features integrated slowly, but well implemented (generally).