Thom at OSNews decries the state of the two most commonly used desktop environments for Linux today: KDE & Gnome. The shortage of core developers has led to minimal releases since their inception, & Thom wonders if developments by Apple & Microsoft have left Linux desktops in the lurch for good.

"All the wonderful ideas behind KDE4 (and the accompanying slick websites) are just that-- ideas and websites. There are no development builds that truly show these ideas in a usable state."