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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Who cares what linus thinks about desktop environments? He's a kernel hacker, does it make him an expert of desktop environments? Of course not. What if he said to drink coke instead of pepsi? Would you do it?
I use gnome and won't switch back to KDE because linus said so. It's a personnal thing.
Are all the other DE/WM complete crap? No they aren't, they simply have different supporters and contributers. The more the better if you ask me. They can steal ideas from each other and they all benefit.