I mean, essentially, we’ve been using the same thing since the Mac came out 20 years ago. What I’ve always found curious is that no one’s come up with a new and better paradigm for graphical environments. This is not to imply KDE isn’t doing great work – only that the GNOME team seems to, at the very least, be moving ahead with more “visionary-style” technologies, for better or for worse. These technologies leverage integration, something that can’t be replicated with a Windows port, but can be added fairly easily to existing open source programs on the platform. IMHO, I think the GNOME project is moving in the right direction with stuff like Dashboard and Storage. This is not a complaint about open source – only an observation of the situation Linux is facing in gaining desktop acceptance. One of the things that I think makes it very difficult for Linux to have a single true “killer app” is that due to everything being nice and open-sourced, any amazing Linux app can be ported straight to Windows, and will be if it’s that good. me curses PowerPoint for not understanding OpenOffice files.
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