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>Before the threats, almost everyone used GNOME 2 No, not really. Early gnome was a joke compared to KDE, in that while KDE could be actually used as desktop,
by trasz 4y ago
>Before the threats, almost everyone used GNOME 2
No, not really. Early gnome was a joke compared to KDE, in that while KDE could be actually used as desktop, gnome was helloworldware.
- lproven 4y ago[Article author here] Early GNOME was GNOME 1.x. It was not great. GNOME 2 was not early. It was the 2nd version, it fixed the issues, it was very widely used, and it still exists today in the form of MATE.
- creatonez 4y agoRather confused by this claim that GNOME 2 was helloworldware. GNOME 2 was one of the very few Linux desktops that saw widespread usage within large companies. Red Hat and Canonical had professional offerings based around it. It attracted a small chunk of home users who were pissed off by Windows Vista. So it definitely got UX tested quite a lot. Red Hat Linux actually still includes a builtin clone of the GNOME 2 design just to cater to people who have been using the same UI in a professional setting for decades. They only recently switched away from this classic clone layout being the default. KDE is the one that was way more community-focused, but it did see a bit of use for professional workstations. You may be thinking of GNOME 1 - it was incomplete garbage.