GNOME

computing: software: GNOME GNOME is a desktop environment for Linux and Linux-compatible operating systems.

GNOME and KDE are currently the most popular Linux desktop environments, and there is much debate about which is superior.

Reference

 * Gnome project homepage

Criticisms

 * 2005-12-12 emails from Linus Torvalds about Gnome usability philosophy:
 * "I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE"
 * longer reply to a GNOME defender