It is almost guaranteed that the upcoming Windows 7, which I’m beta testing tomorrow, the ongoing developments of OS X and the expanding percentage of X11 desktops will bring forth an abundance of articles, lists, and flame wars on how one or the other is a killer for the rest. Just like this piece.

While I strongly suspect that this is a flame-bait article; and some of the reply comments already have fallen for it, if it is; each desktop environment is salient. Given enough time all things change. But the current computer operating interface is a desktop environment. There are 3 at the moment and for the foreseeable future that is how it will stay. Buy why, oh why, do we keep getting this sort of article?

Because people only see what their bubble of life includes. There are 6.5 billion people on the planet; no-one can profess to knowing anywhere near 1% of that. Yet we all think because a majority of who / what we know does / thinks something that a planetary majority must also.

WRONG!