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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That's his style.
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This is on a mailing list on the OSDL. This is not a news release. This is Linus being natural, for better or for worse. This is a guy who has a lot of contact within the community and sees more of a project then most of us on here so I think his frustration with the "progress" of GNOME is spilling over a bit. FTR, I use GNOME primarily but I can relate to some of his misgivings.
Member since:> Was he drunk, or is this an imposter?
If he was not drunk, he should be!
> It's certainly not the Linus that I've come to know in the news.
But it's the good ol' Linus I've been reading in the last 6 or 7 years. A kind of reversed Eugenia, if you will... works the same way, but he defends the righteous points of view ;-)
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Swearing, references to the nazis, "Please, just tell people to use <a free software project before another free software project>" and misspellings?
Was he drunk, or is this an imposter? It's certainly not the Linus that I've come to know in the news.