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> the year of Linux on the desktop will never come also thanks to this. I think you're giving MS too much credit here. Apple has one UI, and Windows has one
by bb88 6y ago
> the year of Linux on the desktop will never come also thanks to this.
I think you're giving MS too much credit here. Apple has one UI, and Windows has one UI (2 if you count windows in tablet mode). Linux has, what? 30?
Quoth the Torvalds:
"I still wish we were better at having a standardize desktop that goes across all the distributions… It’s not a kernel issue. It’s more of a personal annoyance how the fragmentation of the different vendors have, I think, held the desktop back a bit."
Only recently did Ubuntu stop trying to push Unity and accepted Gnome, thereby reducing fragmentation by 1.
https://itsfoss.com/desktop-linux-torvalds/ https://itsfoss.com/desktop-linux-torvalds/
- _ph_ 6y agoI think that both Ubuntu and Red Hat family being based on Gnome is a good thing for Linux on the desktop, as there is a clear target for Linux GUI applications. I like the fact, that you still have the freedom to run any kind of desktop environment of Linux, but a stable default can only help Linux.
- kalium-xyz 6y agoIts better if the competing ecosystem offers multiple stable defaults IMHO. Have you looked at KDE5? its amazing.