The message 43899CE1.7070905@ukfsn.org from Ian bell ianbell@ukfsn.org contains these words:
Chris Green wrote:
I never really understood the need for (or usefulness) of KDE or Gnome, that's why I long ago started using xfce and now, because xcfe seems to be going rather the way of KDE and Gnome I've moved to fvwm2.
Which the real power of Linux - choice.
Which would be a lot better if a common root standard could be agreed so that *ALL* apps could be written to work on any distro without any tinkering.