I’m not a desktop-wars fanatic (I //am// a KDE user, though), but [[http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00021.html|this]] is just priceless:
> I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
> This “users are idiots, and are confused by functionality” mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don’t use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn’t do what I need it to do.
> Please, just tell people to use KDE.