A lot of people dismissed KDE after the rough time of version 4.0,
in
a similar way that Gnome3 is now losing its userbase. But today KDE4
is a beautiful, stable and very user-friendly DE.
Stable? I had to wait until KDE-4.6 until I finally decided that
waiting and reporting bugs won't fix its buginess.
Switched to XFCE a few months ago, and didn't regret it. A traditional
desktop as I like it (a lot like KDE3).
- Clemens