Re: [tlug] Desktop Wars Query

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Jun 27, 2007, at 2:15 AM, Darren Cook wrote:

> > > Whether "Gnome is the Microsoft Windows of linux desktops" is a  
> > > good or
> > > bad point depends on your personality/philosophy :-).
> >
> > I'm really curious on this point. Why do some say that Gnome is the
> > "MS Windows of linux desktops".
>
> Some people have wondered in this thread if distros have chosen  
> gnome as
> the default as it is closest to the way windows works. But I was  
> making
> the comparison as it seems closest to being a de facto standard for
> linux desktops (being the default on many popular distros), just as MS
> Windows is in the wider world of computing.

Eh…actually KDE was "constructed" in a way that it performs similar  
to Windows by default.
I think ppl have chosen Gnome because of the old QT-license-issue  
with KDE and Gnome is GTK which is "really" open-source.

Niels