sounder Digest, Vol 68, Issue 12

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 24-03-10 21:05, David Sanders wrote:
>>> the best godsdamned fit, finish, polish and integration in the Linux
>>> industry,
>>
>> Well, I'd love to see some feedback from the SuSE/Redhat/Mint
>> communities to that claim...
>> Ok. Sure. The GUI choice that gets the bulk of the development
>> resource is more polished. How about we try a couple of cycles of
>> development using a better base GUI and see which would be more
>> polished then?
>
> The proof is in the numbers. More home users use Ubuntu than any other
> flavour of Linux. This is not due to the "I use it at work" aspect of
> Windows, it's simply because it's the most appealing, easy to use
> flavour of Linux and it has spread mainly, as is normal, by
> word-of-mouth.
>
> When there are as many people choosing to use a KDE-based distro, we
> can argue about the pros and cons. Until that time, the majority have
> voted with their feet (and install discs).
>

Why can't KDE and Gnome and Xfce all look like Ion3 or Awesome? #sarcasm