linuxquestions spoken. People like GNOME

Vamp898 · 2010-02-13 03:00:59

42% Voted for GNOME
40,4% for KDE

that means that GNOME gets more Votes than KDE since it exists

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jasonwryan · 2010-02-13 03:14:26

...and the other 16%? Plan 9?

sHyLoCk · 2010-02-13 03:18:23

LQ people are biased towards slack and yet slack fails to win every year. ubuntu beats it by a huge margin. i'm surprised Arch got 58 votes besides mine, I hardly see any Archers over there.

@jasonwryan

KDE        329    40.37%
Gnome        342    41.96%
Xfce        92    11.29%
GNUstep    3    0.37%
rox        11    1.35%
LXDE        38    4.66%

Acecero · 2010-02-13 08:22:28

It will be interesting to see the increase/decrease of gnome users until gnome 3 is released.

Trent · 2010-02-13 15:12:01

This is a great example of meaningless statistics. The percentages try to convey 4 significant figures of precision whereas the sample size warrants less than 3. What do you imagine the margin of error on those statistics are... +/- 10% at the least? Certainly not as low as 1%. In any case, you can't draw any meaningful conclusions about the popularity of KDE vs. GNOME (although you might reasonably compare them to XFCE, for instance).

Here's what I derive from this survey: KDE and GNOME are about equally popular. XFCE is less popular, and LXDE/rox/GNUstep are preferred only by a few users. I think we all could have predicted that.

I'm not trying to rain on anybody's party here, but it really bugs me when people make a big deal out of meaningless numbers.

Mark Twain wrote:

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has
shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old
Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred
thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the
Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. ... There is
something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of
conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Vamp898 · 2010-02-13 15:58:18

I dont make a big deal xD im a KDE user and at all linuxquestion is just.......... linuxquestion xD

you have to take it with more humor dont be so serious

Trent · 2010-02-13 18:41:55

I post a Mark Twain quote, and you accuse me of being too serious?

ngoonee · 2010-02-13 22:00:56

Trent wrote:

I post a Mark Twain quote, and you accuse me of being too serious?

Mark Twain is too serious for me. I want some J.K. Rowling, dammit!

jorpheus · 2010-02-13 22:09:37

Trent wrote:

I post a Mark Twain quote, and you accuse me of being too serious?

Perhaps you should have went with

'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'

skottish · 2010-02-13 22:30:45

Or the longer route:

http://www.classicreader.com/book/1930/

Trent · 2010-02-14 00:21:28

jorpheus wrote:

Trent wrote:
I post a Mark Twain quote, and you accuse me of being too serious?
Perhaps you should have went with
'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'

I hear a rumor that that one isn't actually Twain, but in fact comes from Disraeli. Nevertheless, also a good quote.

Acecero · 2010-02-14 00:25:34

Trent wrote:

'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'

Let it be that statistics are the damnest lies.

goodquote++

jorpheus · 2010-02-14 00:31:30

Trent wrote:

I hear a rumor that that one isn't actually Twain, but in fact comes from Disraeli. Nevertheless, also a good quote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics wrote:

The term was popularized in the United States by Mark Twain (among others), who attributed it to the 19th Century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." However, the phrase is not found in any of Disraeli's works and the earliest known appearances were years after his death. Other coiners have therefore been proposed. The most plausible, given current evidence, is Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843-1911).

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JezdziecBezNicka · 2010-02-15 10:03:10

sHyLoCk wrote:

i'm surprised Arch got 58 votes besides mine, I hardly see any Archers over there.

Archers have their own ArchQuestions

I am looking forward to gnome 3, it looks promising. For now, kde4 suits me better (although I have the impression it evolves very slowly, and it won't be really stable for a looong time)

toad · 2010-02-15 10:15:30

Slightly OT - glad to hear somebody is excited about gnome3. What I would really like to know is whether they continue to have GTK emulate the look of everything (monopolising sods!) so that users of other DEs/WMs do not have to put up with those eye sores called GTK interfaces.

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