: robert-william : lewko wrote: > Guys, I just saw a comment on lwn.net. The author was talking about a > function specific to okular (a KDE application) and one of the people > posting a comment said "If KDE wants to survive in a GNOME world they > better stop making fool decisions." > I wonder what he means by "fool decisions". I know that KDE got screwed by Ubuntu when they dropped KDE 3.5 before 4 was ready to replace it. Having said that I now use KDE 4.4 day to day. On my older machines it is KDE 3.5.
> What I wonder is this. Is Gnome the majority that this person > commenting says it is? When I do an informal pole of the people I > know who use Linux I probably have 5 friends who are solidly KDE, 1 > that uses Gnome and sometimes uses KDE applications and 1 that uses > Enlightenment and couldn't care less about having anything more > elaborate. > > IE, is this person who has posted a comment to this article really > based in reality? Is Gnome more popular? > I would say that Gnome is more popular these days. It is a shame that KDE lost the momentum that it used to have, but from what I can see that was largely the fault of various distributions pushing 4.x before it was ready. I personally find Gnome awkward to use (I switched to it for a year) but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. They are both free and open, and both projects are alive and progressing, which means that for us things will only get better.
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