Re: The strive to be a desktop on mobile has killed both KDE and Gnome
I forget which KDE was used by Linspire but it looked and worked ok for me. Then again I quickly replaced Linspire with Debian (this was long before systemd) so I could have an inexpensive Linux box with an OS that I believed gave me more choice and a better way of maintaining it.
(and my desktop of choice at that time was Gnome 2, back when gnome was pretty good)