Is GNOME really better?

I've always been KDE user. I love kwin, kicker, kate and all the other power features and utils that come with it. In my eyes Konqueror is the best file manager ever. I've been using Kubuntu for the last 3 years but I'm starting to wonder whether I should switch to something else.

I've been working with GNOME quiet often recently, especially on Ubuntu. And it's pretty good. I actually works where KDE fail terribly. For example file associations - which file types are opened by which programs. They are a horror in KDE. Sometimes I have the feeling that if I double click a file in the Konqueror it will be opened with a program chosen by a random generator. Some video files are opened by Kaffeine, some by MPlayer and some don't work at all (like flv videos) although they could be opened by MPlayer or Xine. So every time a install a new system or create a new user I have to fix the settings because the defaults just don't work! And if you're using Firefox (because Konqueror sucks as a browser) then you should prepare for even more trouble because it's file associations are completely different from KDE's.

Is it really so difficult to get these simple things right? You can't expect an normal user to work with a system with such fundamental problems.

And there are many more use cases where Ubuntu is clearly superior to Kubuntu which I'm planning to cover in the future.

I really hope that KDE4 will get this fixed.