Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Dec 2005 09:47 UTC
Without tip-toeing around the matter, Linus Torvalds made his preference in the GNOME vs. KDE matter quite clear on the GNOME-usability list: "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE." Also, "Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'." Update: More of the discussion here.
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2005-07-09
"I don't think this is improper conduct on the part of Linus. The fact that Linus doesn't feel compelled to hold his fire because of his name and position is exactly what the free software community is all about. With Linus joining the fray, other big-names such as Jeff Waugh, Nat Friedman, and Havoc Pennington can join in the fun."
True that. I thought their replies were rather civil. Not once did one of them say "Hey Linus, when am I going to be able to use my .config from the last version of 2.6.x to compile the latest 2.6.x?".