Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 17th Feb 2007 18:59 UTC, submitted by elsewhere
"Some bad blood between Linus Torvalds and GNOME developers is flaring up again. Previously, Torvalds has said that Linux users should switch to KDE instead of GNOME because of the GNOME team's 'users are idiots' mentality. Now he has 'put his money where his mouth is' by submitting patches to GNOME in order to have it behave as he likes. This week, on the Linux Foundation's (formerly OSDL) Desktop Architects mailing list, the two sides are going mano a mano." Can I interest you in a pair of these and these?
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2006-01-28
Linus has got it exactly right. GNOME developers have a lot of good ideas and start to implement them, and then either lose interest or find something else that needs more immediate attention or that they prefer to work on. At this point the nifty new feature partially works, for a while, and, generally, is usually broken and then not fixed for quite some time. Also as Linus noted they seem to dislike patches from outsiders.
I used to like GNOME as my desktop at one time when it was MUCH smaller than KDE, faster than KDE, and mostly worked. (OK, it still mostly works, but it's gotten bloated(rivals KDE in size), and slow.)
On faster machines, today, I tend to end up eventually using KDE even though I give GNOME a shot almost every time, and more especially now since I tend to use Ubuntu for my base installations. Over time, I have found that as mentioned above I generally dump in the KDE packages and rarely ever return to GNOME.
On slower machines, I usually end up going with xfce or something even lighter like fluxbox plus rox filer or similar setup.