Google Chrome OS. Or, how KDE and GNOME managed to shoot each other dead

[newbie2]

Whoever said that competition was good, that it was OK for GNU/Linux to have two competing desktop environments, was crazy. The harm done to GNU/Linux was simply immense. When Google decided to build a web-oriented operating system, they ditched them both. With Google Chrome OS, both KDE and GNOME are suddenly less relevant — and they will become less and less relevant as time goes by.

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/...ach_other_dead

[Xbehave]

LOL gnome and kde have never "shot each other", nor is Chrome a competitor to full desktops.

[Skripka]

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/...ach_other_dead

Stupid article and writer are both stupid.


Yea a non-existent OS based on an age old paradigm, hurts Linux due to KDE/Gnome infighting.

[Psumi]

What about XFCE?

[Skripka]

What about XFCE?

It got shot too. Simply for good measure, it didn't want to feel left out.

[Psumi]

It got shot too. Simply for good measure, it didn't want to feel left out.

And LXDE? Enlightenment? OpenBox? FluxBox? ...

[Simian Man]

Meh whatever Google comes up with will just be another system in the mix. It's possible more "Linux Users" use Android as their interface than Gnome or KDE, but it still doesn't affect desktop Linux. This article just seems to be going for shock value.

BTW I was wondering why he kept saying "GNU/Linux" even when talking about just the kernel. Then I realized what website I was on .

[Skripka]

And LXDE? Enlightenment? OpenBox? FluxBox? ...

Bullets were too expensive at the time. They got the acid bath.

[Regenweald]

Much like the Nexus has fizzled out to lukewarm sales of just another smartphone, so will ChromeOS. No browser is going to beat *any* DE, be it in windows or linux. ( At least until Opera 10.5 has stable html5 support and video support using the gstreamer framework. Now there's an impressive platform waiting to happen )

[caravel]

"Competition"? Some people need to think outside the proprietary box. This is "apples and oranges"... KDE has it's following and so does gnome.