| Torvalds takes sides on Gnome-vs.-KDE |
Dec. 15, 2005
By now, you might already have heard of the latest hubub between Gnome and KDE desktop enthusiasts, the one about Linus Torvalds telling a developer on the Gnome mail list, "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE."
The two were discussing how to improve Gnome's printing options when the creator of Linux wrote: "This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do."
"Please, just tell people to use KDE," Torvalds concluded.
Last month, Novell committed a Gnome-vs.-KDE faux pas when it revealed that it would no longer fully support KDE on its enterprise Linux family. Then, after getting pelted with bad feedback, Novell did an about-face and said it would continue to support both Gnome and KDE on its enterprise Linux lines, after all.
Find out the whole story by reading Steven J. Vaughan Nichols's interesting column on our sister site, Linux-Watch.com, here.
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