Better?

"KDE is better than gnome."

This is not a matter of fact, it's a matter of preference.

I dislike KDE. I don't mind GNOME. It's not great, but it's not bad. KDE seems to work
differently from the way I work; it gets in my way more than not. And, I think it's ugly.

It's a matter of preference between the two.

I haven't tried KDE 4. There've been some big changes, so I might give it another shot.

However, as a developer, I *really* dislike KDE. The choice of C++ as a base language was a
bad one, IMNSHO. It tends to make it harder to develop in straight C, or Objective-C (which I
prefer *infinitely* over C++).

So, as both a user and a developer, I rather prefer GNOME. I believe it is better *for me*
than KDE.