LinuxToday: The Four L's
I am, for the most part, an only child. So it used to puzzle me greatly when my two daughters would fight over the most trivial of issues. At one point years ago, I swear they were arguing about air and who was breathing more.
I have come to learn to expect such behavior, even though I may not understand it. Such are my feelings regarding the current rash of KDE/GNOME bashing going on in various blogs and forums. It seems that you can't post an article about either desktop, however benign, without some yokel using the opportunity to flame the other environment.
Let's face facts: unless one desktop or another comes up with some radical innovation that blows away its competitor, there are no clear advantages for the end-user to choosing KDE over GNOME. Any statement to the contrary is either coming from a troll or someone who is trying to limit choice based on his personal preferences.
On the development side, I will admit that the distinction may be less clear. Libraries, languages, look and feel, and licensing--these are the four L's that make choosing one environment over another rather difficult for a developer.
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