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KDE 3 over everything else.
I love modern KDE, and use many different desktop environments regularly, but nothing will ever come close to the feeling I had the first time I got to experience KDE. And I really don't think anyone has been able to approach the configurability KDE 3 had
I see you, but man, I am of the exact opposite opinion. Configurability is, for me, a bug that needs to be fixed when it comes to desktop environments. It should be as standard as possible across machines.
A good DM need to strike a balance between configurability and ergonomy/ease of use.
As a novice user I loved to tweak the many configuration options, but it's time consuming and often lead to something worse than the default, leading to further tweaking.
Now I appreciate good defaults because that means there's few settings that needs tweaking.
Some DMs like early Gnome 3 releases went a bit too far removing configuration options, and have been slowly adding them back over several years.
It's also what creates a ton of bugs and problems, both for users and developers. People hate on Gnome for being very standard without a lot of config options, but it makes a 'standard' Gnome desktop possible in a way that just doesn't exist for KDE.