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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Member since:2005-12-09
Its not fake at all. For a long time Linus was a Suse user and the default DE in Suse was KDE.
Personally I think he is right. GNOME is not friendly at all to advanced users and a lot of things are dumbed down. For me the file selector is really awful and its a sad thing that Firefox now uses it by default.
Linus could have obviously put his opinions across in a different manner, but the way he did it, is common on most developer mailing lists, so I don't see why people should complain just because its Linus. Obviously a lot of GNOME fans (this site has loads) may be offended but they really need to accept the fact that their DE of choie is not perfect just like the rest that are out there.
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Linus using a desktop environment?1?! I cant believe this is Linus, real hackers only use command line interface, so stop the flamewar, this is a fake