GNOME or KDE

[Chanchao]

Sameera Shaakunthala wrote:

> Please tell me which desktop environment is the best. GNOME or KDE?

Gnome.

Though... they're of course incredibly similar, and whichever you pick 
you probably end up installing half of the other anyway as certain 
applications will make use of either KDE or Gnome libraries.

It's very personal. Personally I think the 'feel' of Gnome is better 
(can't even say 'look & feel' because you can make the look virtually 
the same.

And a lot is not really rational.. Like my first experience with KDE was 
with 'Geek-O-Rama' linux distributions that came up looking utterly 
rediculous by default.

Compare that with more mature distributions like Ubuntu which present a 
much more restrained environment using Gnome, though I bet you could use 
KDE and not have it look like it was designed by a Japanese anime bunny 
on LSD.

Cheers,
Chanchao