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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.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.
>>
>>
>> =C2=A0 My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their house=
s"; I
>> don't run desktops, I run applications.
>
>
> It's just that most people prefer a unified look and feel, rather than ea=
ch
> application inventing the same things in a different and incompatible way=
.
> =C2=A0This is why DEs are so popular.

We had a unified look and feel...but nobody liked that particular Motif. ;)

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