Curious what it is about KDE that you liked. I have
used it some, and show examples in my videos below, and
thought it was an utter disaster.

NOT trying to talk you out of it... not at all - just
curious what you like about it.

I personally prefer(ed) KDE to the others because KDE
looks much more "polished", and finished than the other
DEs (at the time v4.x came out).

Really? In what way? It has more features - most of the
others are rather stark - but the word "polished" would
never come to mind for me.

The default window manager, kwin I think, renders the
windows and decorations very nicely. I'm not one for using
all kinds of effects on the windows, but for some stupid
reason, the wobbly windows was the only one I left on. The
windows moved smoothly, and there didn't seem to be any
noticable delay with the system responding to mouse
motions and clicks (but this applies mainly to v3.x of KDE
only really, where I saw delays like that.)

I am not into that but you can use Compiz with Gnome and
other DEs as well.

Yes. At one point I did replace kwin with Compiz, but then switched is back for some
reason that escapes me now.


There are some places where I think the window effects make
sense... showing where windows minimize to or close to (and
the opposite) offers usability benefits. But if you like
the wobbly windows so be it.

I don't know why that is the only one I use.


The desktop icons seemed nicer and more appealing
asthetically, compared to other DEs, as well as the
taskbar and clock and notification areas.

Fair enough.

I'm not too big a fan of the start menu with grouped
applications, so I use the classic cascading menu. By
default, with the "desktop" set to represent whatever that
window represents rather than showing contents of a folder
is odd, but nothing that can't be changed.

Curious if you have watched any of my KDE videos in my .sig
and, if so, what your thoughts are (SPOILER: the "bugs or
Easter eggs" video is a joke... posted it on April 1st one
year).

I have not until just now. I typically see the -- space c/r delimiter, and then I see
nothing below that, never even notice sigs unless it's some big ASCII art thing.

I do not hide my view of its lack of quality... but to each
their own.

I had not seen, or noticed any these issues. What you were documenting seem to be
very specific bugs, that most likely require pretty exact steps to reproduce. Minor
irritants that I, or others, may never see using their (our) computers as they (we) do.

Certainly not trying to suggest you are wrong to
like what you like.

....when using Linux, it is the KDE desktop that I prefer. Of all the Linux DEs I tried, KDE
seemed the most apealing to me.