KDE and GNOME Users: Different Download Habits
Most GNU/Linux users get the bulk of their applications from their distribution's repositories. However, those who want the cutting edge take to the Web to find it, often to GNOMEfiles if they use the GNOME desktop, or to KDE.apps.org if they use KDE.
Each site includes lists of applications by popularity and user ratings, which raises the question: Are there differences between what the users of the two most common GNU/Linux desktops look for when they look outside their distributions?
Looking at the differences in the most popular and highest rated applications on both sites suggests that differences between both the desktops and their users do exist -- and not just Linus Torvalds' famous complaint that GNOME is designed as if "users are idiots," although there are some indications that others may feel the same way.
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Bruce, are you stupid?
beranger.org: What Bruce fails to understand is that, despite of the name «GNOME FILES», what the site is indexing are the GTK+ applications, being they only dependent of GTK+ only, of GNOME, of XFCE or whatever. Actually, the second line of the logo reads: «GTK+ Software Repository».
In contrast, KDE-Apps.org indexes the applications that need KDE!
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