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I haven't even looked at KDE in many years (I'm not a DE kind of user and just use dwm), but this was true back in the KDE 3 days as well, which I considered much nicer than the contemporary Gnome 2 as well. I never quite understood why Gnome got so much more attention compared to KDE.

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Bundling in major distros? (Say, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE(?)) GTK being open-source and quickly adopted by several popular projects? Being initially under the GNU Project? Probably a lot of factors adding together.

KDE is pretty great, though.

Gnome is Red Hat and Red Hat has a lot of influence over Linux as a whole.

Once a long time ago there was also the licensing concern with Qt.

Unfortunately nobody remembers that Red Hat has so much influence over the Linux stack that they practically own it.

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