GNOME’s Stormy Peters on the Most Important Desktop Issue

The GNOME Foundation executive director, Stormy Peters, recently wrote a bit about why the focus on “the KDE versus GNOME” debate is not the real issue. Many commenters on her post agree (while others actively demonstrate) that it is counterproductive.

Peters says the driving force behind both projects is what matters — and that is to offer choices between free and proprietary desktop environments. The notion that one desktop environment will ever exist that suits every user is likely a myth. Peters proposes that the goal is to build ever stronger free alternatives, and if the projects compete, it is more along the lines of teammates competing for a “Most Valuable Player” title.

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