Linus Torvalds Switched Back To Gnome

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:25:40AM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 2009/2/3 Diego Escobar <dezone24 at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Linus Says:
> >
> > "I realize 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 retry KDE, but I suspect I'm not
> > the only person they lost."
> >
> > Is not a secret KDE 4.0 has a lot of bugs. Now is getting the way. Linus
> > should take a look to KDE 4.2.
> >
> 
> Knowing the fickleness of Linus.. he will do so in about 6 months when
> he has gotten the last of the "You should try KDE 4.x" emails. I think
> desktops, distributions, and websites have all gone up and down with
> Linus over the last 15 years.

He doesn't pay a lot of attention to things that high up the software
stack.  It's whatever gets the job done for him.  I wouldn't read too
much into the whole GNOME vs. KDE issue as far as Linus is concerned.

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