Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions) [LWN.net]

Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 4, 2012 11:22 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions) by raven667
Parent article: Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

I was kind of surprised on how many technical people were using stock GNOME 2 rather than the crazy, tricked out environments that Linux used to be known for.

Same reason I stopped rolling my own kernels: that stuff looks less appealing at 30-35 than it did at 20-25.

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Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 4, 2012 14:18 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

And there is much less need to then in the past.

Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 7, 2012 20:15 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

true. I dont play with styles or backgrounds anymore. but I still DO optimize my desktop for my usepatterns and as I'm far to busy to be willing to wwork around an unflexible interface all the time I find myself using my slow and cramped laptop with KDE more than my big, fast desktop with GNOME. unless something gets better soon I face a choice between learning to write Javascript code or go back to KDE. and I won't learn to code.