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The fact that the article calls Linux a product right from the beginning shows one of its flaws: Unlike other free systems like OpenBSD, Linux suffers from bein

The fact that the article calls Linux a product right from the beginning shows one of its flaws: Unlike other free systems like OpenBSD, Linux suffers from being required to satisfy “the market”. The results: systemd and the choice between being “like Windows” (KDE) or “like macOS” (Gnome). “In some sense, you only hit what you aim at. What was the goal of the Linux community--to replace Windows? One can imagine higher aspirations.” - Bill Joy, 2010.

iso1631 4y ago
I vaguely remember using KDE in the Konqueror days, and Gnome in the early foot days, but I haven't used either for 20 years, using black/fluxbox and more recently xfce
- rhabarba 4y ago
  Xfce started as a CDE clone. I wonder what made them resemble Windows instead.
msla 4y ago
> the choice between being “like Windows” (KDE) or “like macOS” (Gnome). Or, you know, neither, like Window Maker.
- rhabarba 4y ago
  Which I prefer to use myself, but it was born as “like NeXT” (and it still is); so, just another “like an actually successful desktop”.
  - msla 4y ago
    So what "actually successful desktop" are the tiling window managers like? They're probably more successful than Window Maker.