KDE vs Gnome

I read recently of a 'dispute' between the Gnome development team and Linus Torvalds over the Gnome 'less is more' design philosophy, which, he says, treats users as idiots. Torvalds always recommends people use KDE.

Being an idiot, I've used Gnome pretty well since the day I started using Ubuntu (I used KDE on SuSe for a while, but got fed up with the Toytown graphics style), and I have been quite happy with it. Naturally, reading that a man of Torvalds' stature prefers KDE meant that I had to try it again. Fortunately, it's a snap to install in ubuntu (sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop, login choosing a KDE session, and you're away).

Things I like about KDE (from the point of view of a Linux novice, obviously):

1. Konquerer is a fantastic file manager, really flexible. If there's one thing I don't like about Gnome, it's the Nautilus file manager. In fact, I've started using PCfileman, which is tiny, and has an almost perfect functional scope (it's only drawback is that the delete function does actually delete files, rather than putting them in a Trash folder, so it's pretty unforgiving of clumsy typing, as I've found to my cost).
2. Kate is a very good editor, though it doesn't seem to be that superior to gedit.
3. Konsole a pretty good terminal, but again it doesn't seem functionally much superior to gnome-terminal.

And that's about it. Things I don't like, though, are legion. Some of them may just be because I'm used to Gnome, or unique to the Kubuntu distro. Just three of the things I don't like:

1. The default graphical style is style really unpleasant, to my eyes anyway. Although it does have plenty of configuration options and bling to let you change things, the themes that are supposed to keep the whole desktop design coherent are pretty hideous, on the whole.
2. I had the hardest time trying to get the display sharp using Nvidia's proprietary drivers. So hard, in fact, that I ended up hosing my xorg.conf file in the process. My fault, obviously, rather than KDE's, but I never got the display to show fonts as sharply as with Gnome.
3. KDE analogs of Gnome (or GTK-based) applications - e.g. Amarok vs Exaile - seem bloated, rather with more functional.

Anyway, I'm back with Gnome again. Maybe when KDE4 comes out I'll try again. But for now, I'm a Gnome idiot.