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Apple’s poisonous Touch silently kills the GNOMEs of Linux Forest

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 5, 2012

If a major Linux desktop falls in the forest and no one is around to use it, does it make a sound?

That’s a question the GNOME project would do well to contemplate. The once mighty Linux desktop has stumbled and looks like it might be poised to come crashing down after the release of GNOME 3.

Here’s the problem: the radical rewrite that is the GNOME 3 desktop seems to have pleased almost no one.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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