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On 02/10/2012 11:20 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: > See... this statement is what distinguishes the "technical elite" from > the "common masses". The common masses do want the same desktop. > They don't want too many choices. The egos of the various desktop > project cores apparently refuse to acknowledge these facts and the > result is the mess of inconsistency and incompatibility that I described. > > The Linux desktop is at least 16 years old (I'm counting from the > Caldera Network Desktop) and they still haven't gotten it right. At > this rate I don't think they ever will. > > We do agree on one point: I do want the Macintosh desktop. It really > is the best Unix desktop. Period. The main question is "what is right". I used to like KDE, then I got used to Gnome 2, and I am getting comfortable with Gnome 3 (and the extensions I added). There are certain features that Mac users would like to see, and other features that Windows users want. Then there are some features that old command-line Unix users want. I think it is difficult to come up with a common ground. That is why we always have had multiple Windows managers and desktop systems. All have to be able to work in a client-server Linux/Unix environment. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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