Hardware companies, Microsoft, Competition and Consumer Choice

[Scott Evans]

Thank you Sean, you have given a good balanced reply! I was generalising
instead of forcing my POV! But you have raised some good points, I
myself am a GNOME user but it wasn't always that way, quite a few years
back when I was tinkering with Red Hat (8) I was a KDE die hard (um if
you called someone that insisted on dual booting a die hard!) anyway...
I only started using GNOME once I started to use Ubuntu, although I have
had KDE 4.x installed at some points, I've tended to always gravitate
back to GNOME.  Again this is the advantage of that "Freedom" we have a
Linux users! I suppose to that for the developers of a given desktop
environment it's really a case of maintaining some "Identity" after all
this is what makes each of them unique.

I suppose where I was attempting to come from when I mentioned "too much
choice" I was thinking more of the "Marketing" aspect, that is if you
had to select say the 10 best things about Linux some of us wouldn't
hesitate to answer! but this really does come back to what you use your
Linux for, some would only want to use it because they can! but then you
also have it where some of us use Linux because we choose to! there is a
big difference in those two cases.

As to "Big question. How could this 'merge' happen?" Hmm... that I think
is going to be difficult although there is a fair amount of cross
compatibility between GNOME & KDE but its not to the level that you have
mentioned though.


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