Agreed - I loved gnome back in the 1.9 days, though I bounced between that and ratpoison a fair bit. Remember with Ximian was a thing, solidly making Gnome not

Agreed - I loved gnome back in the 1.9 days, though I bounced between that and ratpoison a fair bit. Remember with Ximian was a thing, solidly making Gnome not only better but (to me) an appreciably better desktop? Until Yorba tried to roll out a bunch of things a few years back, I hadn't really seen other similar movement in the Unix desktop space. For me the biggest issue was always the GTK. Writing GTK code in the 2.x days was like pulling hair and things were pretty fractured. It got to the point that I was doing a lot of dev in QT-land that ultimately resulted in my giving in and KDE-ing for a long while. While I don't have fond memories of NeXT, it's nice to see people bringing back history. Damn, I feel old. I'm going to yell at some kids and hope they get off my lawn /s