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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by cat199 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @02:15PM (#17041549)
> As far as I know, Gnome 2 is the last example of a Linux desktop environment that underwent professional usability testing (on regular people and power users) before shipping.

not sure what you mean by 'professional', but KDE is still there chugging along (and IIRC default by suse, which is basically the 'red hat' of europe..)

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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by Sylos on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:10PM (#17044729)
> and IIRC default by suse, which is basically the 'red hat' of europe..

Unfortunately not, no. They use GNOME as well, with some customizations: https://www.suse.com/de-de/products/desktop/features/usabili...

As much as KDE is better than GNOME in almost every way (opinion: mine), this is the one use-case that GNOME is built for. For use in centrally administered environments where the user is not really supposed to touch anything. Which is the primary use-case for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (or other enterprise desktop distros, too).

openSUSE is still on KDE and I'm really hoping that SUSE doesn't violently take that over to make it their GNOME vessel. openSUSE's primary use-case is for home-users, who do need to administer their PC, and it's sort of a power user distro anyways (YaST, btrfs+Snapper, not Ubuntu), so KDE is perfect for that.

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