News Story Inventing A New Linux User Interface

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Fri, 11/20/2009 - 15:19

If you weren't already familiar with the likes of GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, Enlightenment and others, what would you like to see in a Linux User Interface?

Whether you call it a desktop manager, a window manager, an XGUI or user interface; what do you think it needs to be successfully adopted for regular users instead of Mac OS or Windows?

Before you answer, assume that the end user is a non-technical person who just wants to turn on the...

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