Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Feb 2007 09:59 UTC
What is wrong with KDE 3.x? What is wrong with GNOME 2.8+? These seem to be the two questions arising from the recent revival of Linus vs. GNOME spat. We all know the history; Linus called the GNOME guys 'interface nazis' and advised Linux users to use KDE, which resulted in the longest comment thread on OSNews ever. That kind of fizzled out, only to be brought to light again by Linus submitting a few patches to make GNOME behave more like he wants it to behave.
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RE[8]: What does GNOME lack?
by kelvin on Thu 22nd Feb 2007 10:41
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Anyway, I don't want to belittle gnome, I just point out reality...
Not true. You're pointing out your opinion. Gnome being inferior is not fact, it's merely your opinion.
Or to put it another way:
If the linux desktop wants to be ahead of the pack and innovate, it's only chance is Gnome. KDE simply misses the technology, and worse, the ambition.
So much money has been thrown on KDE by Trolltech, Caldera, SuSE, Xandros, Linspire, Apple, etc - still it's equal to Gnome at best. Isn't it time to cut the losses and start making sane choices?
Seriously: neither desktop is going away. Flame wars are boring, and counter-productive. Can't we just get along?
Edited 2007-02-22 10:43
RE[9]: What does GNOME lack?
by superstoned on Thu 22nd Feb 2007 11:15
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Somebody asked for missing things in Gnome... So I took just two small parts of Gnome that seriously annoyed me last time I tried it, and told what imho was missing... So I answered a question.
Anyway, I don't want to belittle gnome, I just point out reality...
If the linux desktop wants to be ahead of the pack and innovate, it's only chance is KDE. Gnome simply misses the technology, and worse, the ambition.
Sorry, but why is saying this so bad? I wouldn't say nothing great ever came out of Gnome, and it's not a bad desktop. But it's NOT the future, if you hope for beating MS and Apple.
So much money has been thrown on Gnome by Sun, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell - still it's equal to KDE at best. Isn't it time to cut the losses and start making sane choices?