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Torvalds Says 'Use KDE'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-then-the-name-calling dept.

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'.""

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  1. FTW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    KDE FTW NUFF SAID KTHNXBAI

  2. I Prefer Aqua! by waif69 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If Aqua was only available for linux... :-(

  3. The biggest problem with GNOME by s1ashd0twh0r3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Who the fuck told these idiots to pick a big, ugly (and probably smelly) FOOT as their logo?

    Believe it or not, there are many people who don't like looking at feet, and the last thing we'd want is to be staring at a stupid-looking foot all day on our computers.

    They might as well adopt the GOATSEcX picture as their logo...

  4. Undo moderation by Greger47 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    N/T

  5. Re:In defense of Gnome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "most people aren't particularly concerned with pseudo-religious debates concerning Gtk v Qt"

    You may be a bit more concerned about Gtk v Qt if:
    1) you think you may ever want to make a closed-source application
    2) you don't have $2000 burning a hole in your pocket

    Gtk is licensed under the LGPL, so it can be used for closed-source applications without much concern. QT, however, costs $2000 per license for one developer using the "Desktop Light Edition". The full version is $3300 for one developer. It's their right to price it however they want, but if I were looking to learn a GUI library, I would see this as prohibitively expensive compared to other alternatives - and is more expensive than most other entry-level commercial software development tools (Visual Studio, Borland C++ Builder, etc). The GPL is generally pleasant enough, but if I have a choice, I'd rather not make it so that everything I write had to be GPL'd. And if I were designing a window manager, I'd try to avoid locking all developers into a particular (costly) licensing scheme.

  6. Re:Torvalds is right. Avoid GNOME use KDE! by Chemicalscum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Go away oGalaxyo

  7. Re:KDE vs. Gnome. Ready...FIGHT! by koreaman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ugh... Make me think of French again when I'm supposed to be studying Spanish, this is becoming a problem for me. Je te déteste /me curses the similarity of romance languages

    --
    Le français vous intéresse?