Linked by Neil Lucock on Tue 22nd Feb 2005 22:17 UTC
I'd better start by admitting that I'm a fan of KDE. It's not because it works like Windows, but for the quality of the tools available. However, a GUI is just a way of doing something and I think I've been a bit dismissive of the Gnome desktop up to now. I read a few reviews of Ubuntu, looked at their web site and decided to have a look. I wanted a general purpose (desktop) distribution and an opportunity to get to know the Gnome utilities.
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I really like the way Gnome is going these days. But I just cannot like it's apperance. I spend a lot of my time using OS X these days, and to go from this to drab brown just isn't good. Of course, business types tend to think Macs are toys, which may be to do with the bright colours, I dunno. Maybe Gnome looks more "business like". I've never found a Gnome theme that I like, either.
Oh yeah, and nautilus' "spatial" behaviour that leaves a whole bunch of windows open really really sucks rocks. I haven't found a file manager that is "ideal" yet. But I certainly have a better time of it using Mac OS X Finder and KDE's Konqueror. Maybe they should copy Finder's column view, that is kinda nifty.
Other than those two things, Gnome and Ubuntu seem pretty sweet. I may change to Ubuntu on my desktop after hoary comes out.