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Gnome "To Attack Windows"

Posted by Hemos on from the and-in-this-corner... dept.

A couple people wrote in regarding the ZD article talking about Gnome taking the battle to Windows. Having talked with Nat Friedman [?] and Miguel de Icaza [?] , I can definitely say that is their intent - and with how good both Gnome and KDE look, Windows should be getting some serious desktop competition.

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  1. FP? But why has no one posted? by Noviota · · Score: 2

    Personally I would love to be running gnome. But i still run debian 2.1 without gtk 1.2
    Microsoft Windows (TM) (R) (ETC) and Microsofts products do have their places in the computer market though.
    Because of microsoft we have david and goliath story to tell, we also have a place to direct our "we need to be better than that" attitude. Yes that attitude is a little wrong but face it, it helps motivate coders.
    Also GNU, as great a phylosophy(sp) as it is just does not motivate the main stream bunch of coders.

    I'm all in for a battle, may the best opperating system win and user interface, it may not be linux, or bsd (gawd I dont understand you people fighting over the GPL and BSG license, we are on the same bloody side here!) but hopefully the ideals behind these opperating systems will become main stream in computing and even in other parts of the economy.
    Having only seen an early version of gnome (and kde) I prefer kde as gnome had no functianality, but having seen the gnome site I want to run it.
    When I changed from windows (3.11) to linux I did it as a big step. I don't run 95+ and don't need to. I hope gnome can make my desktop better and I look forward to this "battle".


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  2. Not with Enlightenment they won't... by foxxtrot · · Score: 2
    Let me just say that I do use GNOME, but with iceWM. For months I used KDE simply because I found it to be much faster and more intuitive that Enlightment is. Let's face it people, Enlightment is suffering from some major bloat, I almost think Windows Explorer is more stable than the latest Enlightenment is. Maybe someday Enlightenment will be able to find that happy medium between functionality and customizability, but I doubt it.

    In short, until GNOME drops Enlightenment as it's default, it won't be able to compete with anything.

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