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Dear Fellow Driver,

I’m sure you are in a hurry, like most people on the road. Your shiny car with the big V8 just aches to get up to speed quickly, and you just have to be doing at least twice the speed limit to be happy, but, was it really necessary to speed up, cut me off, then almost come to a complete stop just to turn into the gas station before me? Is my Dodge so horrible that you couldn’t wait the three extra seconds to make the turn after I did? I’m curious as to what was going through your mind, and what possessed you to pull off such a risky move, and then have the nerve to flip me off when I blew the horn at you. If you’re wondering why I blew the horn, it was to alert you that you almost bought a portion of my Magnum, and you almost caused some unsuspecting driver behind me to almost meet my bumper. It turns out your efforts were all just a plot to get to one of the gas pumps before someone else.

Sincerely,
A concerned driver

I’ve used quite a few desktop environments and window managers. I’ve tried e17, Enlightenment, XFCE4, Openbox, Fluxbox, Gnome and KDE, and the one I keep coming back to? KDE. I don’t have a real valid reason, other than the fact that I just like how it feels. Fluxbox / Openbox are nice and lightweight, but the configuration files and piecing things together got to me. I do have a valid reason on why I chose KDE over Gnome, however. Options. Gnome, to me, seems very dumbed-down, which is what they might be going for. I like having configuration options readily available to me, and I don’t really like to go digging in a “registry” to find an obscure setting.

Overall, though, I use KDE because I like it. It’s the environment I always come back to, and it just works for me, which is all I need in my desktop. Here’s a shot of my desktop as of right now (click for full 1440×900 size):

What you see is the standard KDEmod theme, urxvt and Pidgin in the system tray. Nothing spectacular, but it gets the job done.