[gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 18/06/12 00:33, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On 17/06/12 22:36, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote
>>>
>>>> In my humble opinion, you should use whatever you actually like. You
>>>> don't like GNOME? Then don't use it; and if you used it before and
>>>> don't like the new version, either get involver to get it "fixed" (for
>>>> whatever defintion of "fixed" you want), fork it (although maybe you
>>>> should first try Unity, MATE, or Cinnamon before), or go to another
>>>> desktop.
>>>
>>>
>>>    My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their houses"; I
>>> don't run desktops, I run applications.
>>
>>
>> It's just that most people prefer a unified look and feel, rather than each
>> application inventing the same things in a different and incompatible way.
>>   This is why DEs are so popular.
>
> We had a unified look and feel...but nobody liked that particular Motif. ;)

That was a corporate Unix thing though, not desktop Linux.  Good 
riddance :-P