Comment by panick21_

That sounds a bit like a Gtk+ vs QT mud throwing contest.

The N900 had pretty good reviews and 2 more years of work could likely have made it even better. And Nokia had the developers and control to do what they wanted however arogant Gnome developers were.

I have developed for neither, so I can't really say.

That said, I have been using Gnome based desktop for 10 years now, so I'm bias towards it.