Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Feb 2007 09:59 UTC
What is wrong with KDE 3.x? What is wrong with GNOME 2.8+? These seem to be the two questions arising from the recent revival of Linus vs. GNOME spat. We all know the history; Linus called the GNOME guys 'interface nazis' and advised Linux users to use KDE, which resulted in the longest comment thread on OSNews ever. That kind of fizzled out, only to be brought to light again by Linus submitting a few patches to make GNOME behave more like he wants it to behave.
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2006-01-20
Is that the flamewar involved Linus himself.
This kind of shattered my idea that people that engage in Gnome vs. KDE, Compiz vs. Beryl, C64 vs. Atari ST and the like are only people who don't really have anything else to do.
I am a Gnome person myself (more like a GTK person to be honest, as I use alternatively Gnome and XFCE), and what I don't really like of KDE is the feeling of the qt widgets: it's hard to describe, kind of spongy and toyish, just like the Luna interface vs. Windows classic.