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From GNOME to KDE and Back Again
Slashdot's own Roblimo has an interesting introspective on what makes us so prone to liking one window manager over another. More than likely it's just the inherent laziness of most users that precludes change. "I used KDE as my primary desktop from 1996 through 2006, when I installed the GNOME version of Ubuntu and found that I liked it better than the KDE desktop I'd faced every morning for so many years. Last January, I got a new Dell Latitude D630 laptop and decided to install Kubuntu on it, but within a few weeks, I went back to GNOME. Does this mean GNOME is now a better desktop than KDE, or just that I have become so accustomed to GNOME that it's hard for me to give it up?"
What it does mean:
* Linux continues to flounder around spinning its wheels for 99 percent of the computing world
* Endless and pointless and distracting 'debates' rage on that have absolutely nothing to show for all the effort that has gone into them over the years
* Commercial software makers continue to stand back and just shake their heads in disgust at the juvenile open source community's ability even come up with a standard desktop and desktop API and software installation(if you say 'package manager' I swear I will beat you GPLed ass)
* Even though Vista has turned out to be the biggest OS trainwreck in desktop computer history Linux continues to flatline in marketshare even though anyone can easily grab a free copy and be done with the 'nightmare that is supposedly Vista' today
* A decade after Linux on the desktop has been trying to come up with something the average computer user will use - Ubuntu, the supposed gold standard in consumer friendly distros, made 'baby shit brown' their default colour scheme for their desktop
Linux desktop 1 does A well but not B
Linux desktop 2 does B well but not A
Always has been. Always will be.
Honestly, it's replies like these that piss me off with the open source community! Piss off and build some decent software like Evolution or a bloody .NET compiler and runtime before you criticize smart people like Miguel.
If you want to be taken seriously, please act seriously yourself as well.