KDE vs Gnome

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, January 16, 2006 10:57 AM -0500 "Michael D. Berger" 
<m.d.berger at ieee.org> wrote:

> Someone told me that software people (which I am)
> should use KDE, but he didn't say why.

>From the discussion following Linus' pronouncement, it appears that KDE is 
more customizable. Gnome is more locked-down to a specific user base 
targeted primarily at people who's computer use is incidental to some other 
objective, like doctors and secretaries.

As a programmer who likes to tweak my tools, I suspect I'd be much happier 
with KDE than Gnome. (I don't even know what I've got installed on my one 
Linux desktop, as I just use it to spawn shell windows.)