Hacking For All GUIs for Fun and Profit
This may come as a surprise to some, but there are several Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) and desktop environments out there. The most commonly known ones are:
- GNOME
- KDE
- Xfce
- WindowMaker
- Blackbox
- Enlightenment
- FVWM
- IceWM
Some prefer to have a desktop environment, some prefer to just have a window manager, some prefer to mix and match. The bottom line on that is that different people like to run their desktops different ways, and with such a long line of window managers and desktop environments to choose from, people are more free to run their machines the way they want to instead of being limited to only what developers put into any single package. This freedom enhances productivity—except in cases where people toy around with their desktop environments and window managers excessively—and allows people to really configure their desktop to work for them instead of them having to conform to the desktop. It also allows those who want to experiment with different usability patterns to try coming up with interfaces that are better geared for specific audiences such as children, students, senior citizens, or those who are unfamiliar with general-purpose computing.
All this to say that it’s good that we have choice, so we should focus on supporting those choices and trying to use these choices to enhance software freedom in general instead of only sticking to the interfaces that we ourselves have adopted and grown to enjoy.
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