> The simple 2-bit explanation is KDE is following Windows trends, Gnome is following Mac trends. I am a heavy Mac user at home (for about 20 years), and a hea

> The simple 2-bit explanation is KDE is following Windows trends, Gnome is following Mac trends. I am a heavy Mac user at home (for about 20 years), and a heavy Linux (and to a lesser extent Windows) user at work, and I don’t see that at all. Gnome is infuriating even for a Mac user. I don’t like KDE either, so I use XFCE, but I am absolutely not at home in Gnome. I feel that this perception that Gnome is Mac-like is because the Gnome devs have strong opinions and don’t tend to compromise. But as a piece of software and desktop environment, Gnome is not more “Mac-inspired” than KDE.