Difference between GNOME & KDE
‘Gnome’ and ‘KDE’ are among the oldest and the most widely used
desktop environments in GNU/Linux. They’re both basically trying to
achieve the same goal — creation of a fully functional and an easy to
use desktop, interestingly though, by based on two entirely different
ideals.
Gnome tries to follow the ‘philosophy’ of ‘Unix’ (another operating
system that ‘inspired’ the initial development of ‘GNU/Linux’), ‘do one
thing and do it well’, thus their applications are extremely simple and
don’t have a lot of configuration options (very similar to Apple’s Mac
OS’s UI guidelines).
KDE on the other hand, comes with a lot of options and features so
the users are given the ‘freedom’ to interact and customize applications
the way they want. With the version ’4.0′, KDE too underwent a lot of
UI changes and as a result nowadays it looks a lot simpler than how it
used to be (when comparing with 3.0 or latter versions for instance).
It might seem that they both belong to the same ‘group’ of people,
sharing the same belief system. I may have extracted the ‘wrong bits’
from my experiences, but I think that both Gnome & KDE developers
disagree with each other, fundamentally.
