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Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE by userbinator on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:39PM (#18367922)
Wow, WTF. I could sort of see that type of thinking from a commercial product marketing manager, but it's puzzling coming from an open-source developer. All that flufftalk of "brand" or "identity" --- whatever happened to just designing products that your users want to use!?

It is particularly perplexing since Windows before 8.x was far more customisable and themable, which probably lead to its success.

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Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE by barrkel on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:46PM (#18367961)
Windows was not successful due to its customisability or themability. Windows was successful because in the early days it was the best (cheap + capable + commodity hardware) choice, it built an ecosystem of apps, and then it ruthlessly preserved as much backward compatibility as possible to carry the advantage forward.

The lesson of backward compatibility is slowly getting lost across the whole industry.

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