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I'll take KDE4 over Gnome...but BARELY.
If I knew how to get a graphical file manager set up as well as Konqueror on KDE3, I'd probably be willing to do gnome instead of KDE4. But I don't. (IE - dual panel, ability to have the "system" and "storage media" quick buttons, terminal emulator, button to open terminal, no text on toolbars, etc.)
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KDE3 is still king of the window managers. GNOMEs belong in the garden, not on the desktop.
/me ducks and runs
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| I guess I've used KDE for most of the time I've been using Linux.... there was that time long long ago when I used redhat..... but I really do prefer KDE, it's just more polished and it's much easier to switch people to the KDE desktop from M$ than it is to get them to switch to gnome or xfce or some other dm/wm. At least, that's been my experience.
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| /me pulls out all of his hard drives and reboots with his home spun suse live cd
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KDE3 was not bad. I only preferred GNOME over it for small, mostly visual/aesthetic reasons. But I like GNOME a lot more than KDE4. KDE4 just doesn't appeal to me.
Actually, I'm using Xubuntu on my slower laptop, and I'm really getting to like XFCE. At this point, I don't think it will replace GNOME for me, but it's a very nice DE that I will continue to use.
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Having started with Mandrake, and some others that are the reason I am no longer able to hold my wine glass...or beer bottle for shaking, all of which used KDE once it became available..I have an affinity for K aps. In particular, Konqueror, and K3b. I used to buy Red Hat in days of yore ( before cable ), but never really cared for the way it felt. Gnome aps just did not cut it for me.
Of late, I have run several open box, xfce, and other lite desktops. They usually leave me feeling like I am still using Amiga, or a Commadore, but I can't find the 5 1/2 floppy <G><
Well, better implementations of xfce, not so much...
In any case, I would side KDE..even if it is KDE4 Barf. Those above are correct, a Gnome belongs in the garden. ~ snicker[/b]
BTW, my misile defense shield is up, skywatch is armed and ready, and the marines are on alert.
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) ....... personally, I'd rather use XFCE - fluxbox or IceWM 
i greatly dislike kde... gnome is bad too, but w/e... xfce/*box for me, and those other tiling wm 
