[newbie] gnome, enlightenment, etc....

[Rich Foreman]

ok.. really dumb question this time...

What is the main difference between Gnome, Enlightenments, KDE, etc...

I am really confused about which one to use and don't know what the
difference is.. I do know that I used enlightenment yesterday and everything
disappeared off of the desktop.. I had to log in as root, delete me user
account and create a new account in order to get the desktop back...

Thanks,

Rich Foreman