Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Aug 2009 19:08 UTC
A complaint you hear quite often is that the Linux desktop environments, which mostly refers to KDE and GNOME, are trying too hard to be like Windows and Mac OS X. Now, even James Bottomley, Distinguished Engineer at Novell, Director of the Linux Foundation, and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board (put that on your business card) states in an interview that he believes the Linux desktop is too much like Windows and Mac.
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2008-08-19
Problem is, most of the tiling WMs look awful - ultra-minimalist styling reminiscent of 20 years ago. Just look at the screenshots any of these projects provide - almost every one of them consists of half a dozen xterm windows, and maybe a simple clock somewhere.
And so while the features might be great, no major distro is ever going to put something like that in front of it's users by default - who could take them seriously? For the concept to go mainstream, it needs an implementation that *looks* mainstream.