So which desktop should you choose? The answer must be both personal and context-based. Some users make their decision on the basis of aesthetics, arguing that one desktop is more corporate-looking or friendlier than the other. Others choose on the basis of a feature that is important to their work or habits, such as KDE’s multiple clipboard or Evolution’s business-like structure.

However, if neither GNOME or KDE seems decisively better than the other, why choose at all? With hard disk space no longer at a premium, you can install both desktops with all their bells and whistles in no more than six or seven gigabytes. If you are selective, the desktops and their basic utilities should occupy less than a gigabyte each. After all, not being locked-in to specific programs is part of the power of free software — so why not take advantage of the fact to pick and choose the best of both?

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