| >> Red Hat are like Microsoft because their enterprise distro offers only one desktop? Alright. I guess macOS is Microsoft as well under that definition. No, Red Hat is like Microsoft because they made the same mistakes with GNOME 3 that Microsoft made with Windows 8--they gave designers free reign to do whatever they wanted and did not listen to user feedback. The changes from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 were jarring enough for many users to abandon it (https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-3-4...) and for the MATE fork of GNOME 2. Forcing those jarring changes on all users was a mistake: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fedora-16-gnome-3-revie... https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8kn9t4/why_does_gnom... https://www.datamation.com/open-source/the-gnome-3-meltdown/ https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-people-hate-GNOME-3?sha... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16869157 >> Without discussing the merits of GNOME vs others, is your company prepared to pay twice for the RHEL license if they provide official support for both GNOME and KDE? Supporting more environments doesn't come for free. Probably not, but given the choice I would select KDE over GNOME 3 simply because it offers a more customizable user experience that does not require "tweaks" and "extensions" to get the desktop setup that some users want. What's next? Removing Emacs and Vim and only offering GNOME Text Editor? Supporting more text editors doesn't come for free. |