Just finished installing Gnome. It's going to need a bit of 'getting use to' but which DE/WM doesn't?
Two strange things happen after installing it. First, when you turn off the computer, it normally shows a MEPIS background, but now, it shows Debian. Second, Gnome seems to become the default DE/WM and I don't know how to change it back.
On the good side, Gnome seems to have installed some new apps (which is great) but I can't find much settings to tweak in Gnome like I can with KDE. Gnome seems to have a better way of arranging things three different categories instead of a start menu (which seems much neater but I still find it a bit awkward to use).
In conclusion, I would stay with KDE for now, but some Linux (like Linux Mint and OpenSUSE) uses Gnome that looked like KDE.
http://www.linuxmint.com/img/screens...a/mintmenu.png
http://en.opensuse.org/Image
esktop-gnome111.png
How'd about that? A smiley face appeared right in the middle of an URL?