Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Aug 2009 19:08 UTC
Linux 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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RE[2]: Yeah...
by axilmar on Fri 28th Aug 2009 09:36 UTC in reply to "RE: Yeah..."
axilmar
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Computers are simply difficult to operate


That's because the technology used to program them is outdated. The model of processes/filesystems/files/folders holds the development of more interesting software back.

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