“I used KDE as my primary desktop from 1996 through 2006, when I
installed the GNOME version of Ubuntu and found that I liked it
better than the KDE desktop I’d faced every morning for so many
years. Last January, I got a new Dell Latitude D630 laptop and
decided to install Kubuntu on it, but within a few weeks, I went
back to GNOME. Does this mean GNOME is now a better desktop than
KDE, or just that I have become so accustomed to GNOME that it’s
hard for me to give it up?“A significant barrier to Linux adoption is a natural human
resistance to change. The vast majority of the world’s computer
users are now used to the Windows XP desktop and are not eager to
give up something that works reasonably well for them in favor of
something new, whether that ‘something’ is Linux or Microsoft’s own
Windows Vista…”