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
To you. Well... to me, too, but there is a reason why such WMs exist. Reason: There are users who found that especially "minimalist" settings are the best environment for their individual work and productivity. "
Right, but you said "popular distro". Understand, I'm not criticizing those minimalist WMs, but they're very much aimed at a small userbase of serious power users. And that's kind of hard to reconcile with being a widely used "popular" distro, targeting the mass market.