>To think that a linux distro had the almost ideal desktop UI realised and then squandered it all away, seems puzzling now. Hard to say how much truth is in th

>To think that a linux distro had the almost ideal desktop UI realised and then squandered it all away, seems puzzling now. Hard to say how much truth is in this story, but there was some speculation that this was caused by Microsoft. They started to make some noise about Linux desktop infringing their patents, and while Novell (who was contributing to KDE) signed patent-sharing deal, neither Red Hat nor Canonical (big contributors to GNOME) did, presumably choosing redesign instead. https://www.theregister.com/2013/06/03/thank_microsoft_for_linux_desktop_fail/?page=1 https://www.theregister.com/2013/06/03/thank_microsoft_for_l...