>I think a lot of people are confusing "good UIs" with "pretty windows". Very much so - although ideally you can have it all. >When it comes to usability and

>I think a lot of people are confusing "good UIs" with "pretty windows". Very much so - although ideally you can have it all. >When it comes to usability and general quality of the UI, Gnome has surpassed dumbed-down OSX UI long time ago, they just don't have pretty windows to win the masses. As a daily user of both, I disagree. I don't think Gnome has surpassed - at least not in a meaningful way. OSX is very prescriptive on how apps behave and look (consistency) - Gnome is just one part of the problem, there are the millions of other little inconsistencies that bug me (but I guess they aren't really gnomes problem).