>Why does there need to be one dominant DE anyway? Because, if a company is going to write software to run on lots of machines and be closed sourced like most

>Why does there need to be one dominant DE anyway? Because, if a company is going to write software to run on lots of machines and be closed sourced like most commercial software, it is going to require a pretty stable target to run on. When there are 25 different popular Linux configurations, it is prohibitively expensive to test them all for the number of individual users for each configurations. > You think KDE is going to one day just say "okay GNOME, we quit"? No, I think game/software vendors are going to ignore one or the other, following the lead of someone like valve. Then that one will become very niche, like the BSDs