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Debian Jesse is going to have Gnome3 as the default desktop.
The desktop re-qualification page, used to help choose which desktop will be default, has in the Jesse version a weight for systemd integration, and of course only Gnome3 does it (at least for now). This will surely make the systemd/gnome3 fanbase happy, but possibly will make others unhappy, as it [may] be seen as another step towards mono-culture, until we soon end up with all distros being redhat clones.
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Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 24 2014, @03:26PM
There might be hope for KDE yet - if they really hold to the "simple by default, powerful when needed" philosophy.
Good defaults are important because >90% of them would be what 90% of the users would be using. This makes tech support easier, adoption by corporations easier. If you pick crappy defaults and practically everyone has them changed then most installs would end up being their own unique snowflake and that makes support harder. Powerful when needed (without resorting to conf file editing) is great too especially if discoverable - since that also makes support easier.
But for some reason many (most?) of the major distros seem to prefer GNOME. I have no idea why.
In contrast with the Windows Metro UI, discoverability dropped a LOT. Even merely logging out is harder than it was before and harder than it should be.