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Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome

Posted by timothy on from the seldon-plan dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a recent Computerworld interview, Linus revealed that he's switched to Gnome — this despite launching a heavily critical broadside against Gnome just a few years ago. His reason? He thinks KDE 4 is a 'disaster.' Although it's improved recently, he'll find many who agree with this prognosis, and KDE 4 can be painful to use." There's quite a bit of interesting stuff in this interview, besides, regarding the current state of Linux development.

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  1. Re:A reasoned analysis? That's good. by Haeleth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now imagine if MS would ship pdf viewer with their system, adobe would shred them to pieces with anti-monopoly laws.

    Depends how they did it. A very basic tool that could display and print PDFs, but didn't have any of (e.g.) the form-filling capability of Adobe Reader, wouldn't necessarily be a problem.

    They managed to integrate basic ZIP file support without a lawsuit from Winzip, after all.