<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Tony Alfrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tonyalfrey@earthlink.net">tonyalfrey@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Gary Wilson wrote:<br>
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You missed the news earlier this year: Linus Torvalds ditches KDE 4 for GNOME<br>
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In an interview with Computer World, Torvalds said:<br>
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I used to be a KDE user <<a href="http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2009/01/linus-torvalds-ditches-kde-4-for-gnome.html#" target="_blank">http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2009/01/linus-torvalds-ditches-kde-4-for-gnome.html#</a>>. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is painful for users and they can choose to use something else.<br>
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I realise the reason for the 4.0 release, but I think they did it badly. They did so may changes it was a half-baked release. It may turn out to be the right decision in the end and I will re-try KDE, but I suspect I'm not the only person they lost.<br>
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When users would make essentially the same comment on the SuSE list, some of the developers would say things like "can you document which specific thing doesn't work for you?" or "well, linux is all about choice, you can use a different window manager" or "did you file a bug report?". Maybe Linus didn't file a bug report ;-)<br>
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Tony Alfrey<br>
<a href="mailto:tonyalfrey@earthlink.net" target="_blank">tonyalfrey@earthlink.net</a><br></div><div class="im">
"I'd Rather Be Sailing"<br>
_______________________________________________<br></div></blockquote></div><br>Why would he? I thought someone gave him a Macbook Pro. ;-)<br><br><br><br>