Gnome vs. KDE

I’ve used KDE for the length of my Linux use. It’s been the most comfortable desktop environment for someone like me who needed to be weaned off of Windows but I’m now considering switching to Gnome. I may begin trying out Gnome in various distributions and posting about the benefits/compromises that I see in it.

One thing I’ve noticed already is that cursor focus seems to be much faster in Gnome than KDE. I’ve written about problems with Firefox response speed a couple of times and upon only cursory (heh) overview it seems as though the cursor and response time problems are greatly mitigated with the Gnome desktop environment.