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Re: [trinity-devel] Linux desktop environment market share survey

From: Nikolaus Klepp <office@...>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 16:15:42 +0100
Am Samstag, 7. Februar 2015 schrieb Alexandre:
> Hi all!
> 
> I found a new survey about Linux desktop environment usage survey:
> http://www.itworld.com/article/2881172/survey-says-kde-plasma-is-the-most-popular-desktop-linux-environment.html
> 
> It has KDE Plasma at first place, and surprisingly, XFCE at second place.
> Sorry, but TDE is almost the smallest one.
> 
> These numbers says that classical desktop environment can still have a great part of ''market'', since XFCE is quite a classical desktop environment.
> 
> One thing that I am very sorry, is how TDE got almost no media coverage at the R14.0.0 release, and almost none at all for the stable quality releases as 3.5.13.x series.
> 
> What strikes me, is that some things need to be done to attract more attention, more users and more developers. Since classical DE as XFCE can have a large market share, I think that it is still possible to get more users, possibly by ditching away the perception that it is the outdated kde3.
> 
> What do you think? Have a great day!
> -Alexandre
>  		 	   		  

my 2 cent: get TDE to FreeBSD.

Nik

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