Gnome creator: Linux has "only 10 great desktop apps"
Linux is struggling on the desktop because it only has a small number of "great" apps, according to the Gnome co-creator.
Miguel de Icaza, co-creator of the Gnome desktop, told tech journalist Tim Anderson at the recent Windows 8 Build conference that Linux desktops have failed because they never cracked the application problem.
"When you count how many great desktop apps there are on Linux, you can probably name 10," de Icaza said, according to a post on Anderson's IT Writing blog. "You work really hard, you can probably name 20. We’ve managed to p*** off developers every step of the way, breaking APIs all the time."
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yeah, 10... or not.
After Firefox and various command line apps, the top apps I can thing of are all KDE based. I don't think Firefox nor LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org are officially GTk or Gnome apps, they just use that toolkit.