Oh, I forgot mention something in my previous reply. One more reason I lean towards GNOME over KDE is because of GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
1) Cognitive Ergonomics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_ergonomics) 2) Human-Computer Interaction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction) 3) Human Interface Guidelines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_guidelines) 4) GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/)