Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 25th Feb 2007 21:23 UTC
"A current mania is to exile yourself for a certain period of time into the rival desktop environment, to see how bad (or not) you would feel: a KDE fan would use GNOME, while a GNOME guy would use KDE. I have undertaken the challenge myself, and it wasn't bad at all." More here. Additionally, a Gnome panel apps review.
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2005-07-08
A lot of his issues are simple matters of taste
Issues of "taste" are foremost for most end-users when evaluating a desktop system.
Overall, I'm impressed by this article. It rises to a level not often attained in blog entries about the GNOME/KDE dilemma. It's obvious that some time and effort was put into it, quite a bit for the claimed 3-day test period. The conclusion was neutral, but it wasn't your typical "wet noodle" affair where the conclusion attempts to retreat from any assertions made in the body of the piece.
What I was able to glean from this piece is that both GNOME and KDE have their fair share of limitations, quirks, and idiosyncrasies, often in different aspects of the desktop environment. Therefore, there is still much that can be learned by peering across the aisle to determine where the other DE might have superior solutions to common tasks.
It really comes down to taste. If it were about technical superiority, most informed users would agree on the obvious winner.