so, uh... i wanna go back to linux

[raublekick]

yeah i agree. but i also think gnome helps promote the idea that linux isn't powerful. i dunno, it's hard to explain, but gnome is really simple, and that can hurt it. Windows isn't simple, but most everyone can manage that. My feeling has always been that Linux is just a different, but by no means harder, way of using your computer. The only reason it is hard at first is because it is different. If you went from using Linux all your life to suddenly wanting to try Windows, I think Windows would be the one that is too hard. so then people use Gnome and it is way simpler than Windows, and that can come off as not as useful (although in some respects it is true).

last year we were working on a program in the linux lab at school, and my one friend stretched all of the desktop icons to their full size and was like "look, MyFirstLinux!" wow, did it ever look like just some toy computer.

KDE4 should be the bees knees, though.