I'd just like to point out as a KDE user, I had much less problems with the graphics drivers that with Gnome 2.x or Gnome 3. The thing that make to change from

I'd just like to point out as a KDE user, I had much less problems with the graphics drivers that with Gnome 2.x or Gnome 3. The thing that make to change from Gnome 2.x to KDE 4 was that Gnome was running at slug speed with VESA driver (ATI drivers not working well in a barebone that was making for the TV), when KDE/KWin was running pretty smooth. Plus in this last years and tested that when the crap ATI drivers introduce some instability to the GUI, KDE at least self-recover alone very quickly and I don't get unusable GUI, like I saw with Gnome shell + ATI privative drivers. Finally, I love how I can customize my desktop to my needs... It's like the old times when Enlightenment was the cool and beautiful wm, but easy to change anything. KDE 4 isn't perfect, but I think that it's much better that the crap that Gnome is actually.