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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2005-07-06
You're right : OSX is an OS while Gnome is a GUI.
I was referring to the 'ease of use' when compared to the cluttered KDE interface. OS X is clean and so is GNOME. That's what I was talking about. OS X Tiger 'Dashboards' resemble GNOME desklets. They sure work different and are different, but as a user experience they look both clean and easy, and similar.