[_broody]

You know, even though I think there are pretty decent Linux DEs today (I'll gladly take Gnome 3 over the OSX or Windows GUIs), you are completely right about the community having an awful attitude towards their designers. See all the hate thrown at Gnome 3, Unity and Pantheon... Those projects are the only ones keeping Linux from looking like it's 10-20 years behind its competitors in UI design.

[reitanqild]

Not hating them but a few of those people always seem to have brilliant ideas that they try to force (spatial nautilus for the oldtimers, breaking alt-tab in unity etc).

Where it gets really annoying is when they remove the options - our way or the highway, again something borroed straight from Apple.

(yeah, a little tongue in cheek is implied here, I am bo designer and I haven't done much research in UX)