Linux Questions Desktop Environment of the Year - interesting result
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Feb 13 20:38:20 UTC 2012
drago01 wrote:
> The poll is scientifically useless and you know that; and the one Olav
> linked shows the opposite by the way.
The one Olav linked to said only "GNOME" rather than "GNOME 3" or "GNOME
Shell" and as such people who are still sticking with GNOME 2 will have
voted for GNOME too. Several distributions are still shipping GNOME 2 (and
users don't always use the latest version of their distribution either), so
they might not even KNOW about GNOME 3 yet, or at least not have tried it
yet. Plus, the poll is outdated by at least 2½ months (published Dec 1),
which also contributes to people still rating GNOME based on the old GNOME
2. (Again, most distributions are much slower in adopting GNOME 3 than
Fedora.) Even the article itself admits that "Due to the timing of the GNOME
3 release, it's hard to tell if the victory is because of version 3 or in
spite of it." The LQ poll proves it was the latter.
Kevin Kofler
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