Anand Singh said the following on 11/24/2011 1:05 AM:
Choice #3. The Linux desktop was here, but was subsequently rescinded because it offered functionality not required by below average users. Honestly, was a minimize button so confusing to most people that it needed to be removed (Gnome 3)? Was the concept of desktop icons so confusing that it needed to be abandoned (default Gnome 3/KDE 4)? Do we really need to hide application menus (Unity)?
All of these are symptoms of the UI designers running headlong towards tablet/pad/smartphone oriented interfaces, in my opinion. They have abandoned the "traditional" desktop interface in favor of tablet/pad style interfaces and have hobbled traditional desktop users in the process. Even Windows 8 is heading this way.
As a system administrator for 60+ Linux desktop systems all of whom are power users in one way or another, I dread the next major operating system update a couple years down the road. A tablet-ish interface will drive my user base crazy, and that's saying something about a bunch of PhD's in statistical science. Don't even get me started on the diminishing support for traditional Unix/Linux desktop support in a network environment with NFS home directories, etc.
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