>     I'm allways surprised when people seem to find Gnome is
> compelling. I never found it compelling. A dozen years ago I moved to
> KDE, because Gnome was so ugly. Later I turned back to Gnome when KDE
> went crazy; then Gnome-3 went mental also and I switched to Gnome-2,
> and then Xfce4. My children told me recently the Linux we have at home
> seems much simpler than those of some of their friends. I'm not sure
> they consider this a compliment, but I'm happy with it because
> simplicity is a quality for me and the complexity of other DEs is
> neither usefull nor pleasant, just exasperating.