A very amusing look at the two major Linux desktop environments. It’s so well-written that I could actually hear it in my head, as if it were live commentary on a real boxing match.
(I don’t have a favorite in this fight. I’ve used GNOME for the past few years, but that’s solely because it’s the default on Ubuntu, and I haven’t been annoyed enough by it to check out alternatives. I think I also used KDE for a short while, back around the turn of the century when I made my first exploratory foray into Red Hat Linux. KDE is said to be better-designed internally, that’s about the only technical difference I know.)
Actually, Red Hat defaulted to GNOME, GNOME was originally mostly a Red Hat project, but later versions offered KDE as a badly configured and often patched-to-hell by Red Hat option. 😉
Then maybe I’ve never tried KDE. No big deal, I’ll get around to it when GNOME annoys me enough. 🙂
KDE might annoy you more, it did me, though some people like it.
At the moment, the only thing that might tempt me to try it is the ability to have different wallpapers on my two TwinView-enabled monitors. There’s apparently no way to do that with GNOME, other than manually pasting two wallpapers together into a single file.