Match distro and desktop?

> RedHat has 7.2 out. I just burned the CDs. In the release email I got, they
> tout Gnome and Nautalus but there is no mention of KDE. I know KDE is in
> there but they are obviously pushing Gnome.
>
> SuSE is very KDE "centered." I assume other distros may be "centered" on
> some other window manager/desktop environment.
>
> Question: Is it better/more reliable/more supported to run the
> distro-preferred desktop or does it not really matter?
>
> To ask it another way: Is it true that, for example, if I really like KDE, I
> should use SuSE because SuSE will be "better" integrated with KDE and,
> conversely, if I really like RedHat I should use Gnome since they will
> support Gnome better? That it is better to use the "matching" distro and
> desktop pair?

I wouldn't think so, but then again I've only used RH. I have tried a number of
Window Managers (Gnome, KDE, E, Ice, etc...) and have had no trouble with any of
them on RH (some didn't have rpms, big deal, just compiled and use .xinitrc to
start them up instead of the default :)