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The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

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Fairly obvious why its the same-but-different

The most important feature of the desktop is that it should work relatively intuitively compared to the users experience. The users have experience with Windows. Hence, it should “work like Windows”. That’s why Linuxes look the same: the ones that don’t, have six users.

The rest is just “where have you put my things”. A tribal war has built up around choice of “where have you put the things”. It must be very similar to Windows, but equally not the same (otherwise the We Hatez Windoze crowd won’t use it). Therefore, the options sit on a self-organised edge orbit around Windows.

MS Windows, of course, is exactly the same. Win95 through 7,8,9,10,11 are all functionally identical “does the same stuff”. It can’t be really different, or people won’t use it as its “not Windows”

But it can’t *be* the same, otherwise people won’t pay to “upgrade”.

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