He actually still uses GNOME, at least as recently as 5 months ago.

I'm a KDE user but I get why people like it.

and I am a GNOME user and I find it totally fine to use KDE. Thats the cool thing about open plattforms. Just some people having too much time to make a UI interface part of their personality rant too much on the internet about other UI interfaces.

What's your point? At least he was able to switch away from it and choose from any plethora of other options.