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		progman on Feb 21, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Year of Linux on Everything but the Desktop > By it's nature, the Open Source (OS) community doesn't have the man-hours or leadership structure in place to make a coordinated desktop system. That's wrong. KDE and Gnome are coordinated desktop systems. Why do all people cry out for a single desktop? GNU/Linux (Unix also) and the desktop had always been separated, and I consider this a very good design choice. Right now the Linux community is slowly moving towards Wayland. Thanks to the design of Linux it's no problem to add a new series of desktops to Wayland until the best ones will get obvious, likely two or three again (as KDE and Gnome).

RandyRanderson on Feb 22, 2017 [–]

There shouldn't be a debate about the desktop effectiveness of Android* on one hand and KDE, Gnome, etc one the other for casual users.

I definitely did not mean to imply there should be a single dt. I would however, like there to be at least one good one. ;>

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