GNOME

computing: software: GNOME

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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
• Wikipedia

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