“As the thread went on Linus became even more colorful in his
criticism, calling the Gnome developers ‘interface Nazis’ and
citing examples of how Gnome’s UI makes it take longer to do
things. At the time I agreed with the eminent Mr. Torvalds
wholeheartedly.“Why rehash this now? A number of people have written to me
about the wonders of Gnome 2.14. One reader of my review of Fedora
Core 5 here on O’Reillynet went so far as to suggest that the
performance improvements I was seeing were because of the wonderful
new Gnome code…”