Why I prefer Gnome over KDE

(as a new user to Linux)

1. Gnome is cleaner.

2. Gnome looks better out of the box. There’s no space-hogging icon or taskbar (which is very important since I haven’t been able to edit xorg.config to change my screen resolution from 800*600). You should see KDE on my a virtualization window. It looks terrible.

3. The clock looks terrible.

4. Everything’s too shiny! (maybe this will change with KDE 4)

5. I don’t like the eye-candy.

6. KDE is clunkier in its default configuration.  The huge icons make KDE look like a kid’s toy. (I think this will change in KDE 4)

Once KDE 4 comes out, I’m giving KDE another chance.  For now, though, I’m using Gnome.

Very trivial reasons, I know.