Torvalds Says 'Use KDE'

An anonymous reader writes "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'.""

Comments

Perl?

[alienmole]

They really ought to know enough Perl to read and write files and manipulate numbers, and know a little programming.

I know and use many programming languages, but Perl is not something that anyone outside of a programming professional "ought to know". If anything, it's the opposite: they ought to stay away from it, and learn a language with a halfway sane syntax and semantics, as opposed to a warmed-over Unixy shell scripting language that went through a brief period of overuse during the dotcom bubble.

Gnome is flat out better than KDE

[tjstork]

90% of the people that use KDE have fallen under the stupid spell that having 20 half-arsed features is better than one feature that is both to the point and works. KDE is like having super hard shoes with a quality hatch at the bottom of the car and Gnome is like having a car with brakes.

In Gnome, when you change your desktop's appearance, it changes immediately. KDE gives you a bazillion options with a preview that is not nearly so effective. This is an enormously difficult problem to solve and Gnome did it, but KDE did not.

Similarly, Gnome's control panel for its desktop is clear and covers the basics. KDE's control panel is an unorganized bunch of slop, a bunch of directors without a script throwing things into a play, and what you see is the nauseum of what you get.

And, do I even have to mention how childish KDE is with their gay "K*" naming convention? Last time I checked, there are far more letters in the Alphabet than K. It makes the whole desktop look, well, stupid. "Konquerer" as a web browser. These guys can't even spell and they are going to "Konquer". Come on.

Losers.

The KDE team should focus on enhancing KDevelop and let the Gnome people handle the user experience.