... I'm somewhat spoiled. I want to be able to configure anything to look exactly how I want it to, using a graphical user interface to do so...

... at present, no Linux front-end even comes to close to doing this.

That said of them all, KDE is the one I have become most comfortable with over time, and I'm mightily impressed with the sheer volume of applications -- reasonably useful applications, no less -- that the KDE developers keep churning out. Sometimes there is needless duplication, but I'd rather have feast than famine. And with each release the user interface becomes more and more useable, even though oddities (like this damned kmenuedit bug -- I'm not convinced it's purely a kde thing, I think Mepis did something on top of it that's screwing me over) persist.

And I'm very fond of the Konqueror browser -- loads faster than Firefox on my machine, and a lot easier to manage bookmarks. Though I confess I am puzzled as to why it insists on bolding EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF NON-ITALICIZED TEXT on ubersoft.net...