“Red Hat has decided to configure both desktop environments – KDE and GNOME – which it ships with the next version of its Linux distribution to look and behave in similar fashion.
While the company has its own logic for doing this – argued at length by desktop team member Owen Taylor – the decision may annoy those users who long ago settled for one of the two desktops as a default.
Variety has long been one of the things which Linux users like and this trend towards homogeneity could backfire.”
Link: The Age
Category:
- Linux
