Originally posted by Dukenukemx
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GNOME 3.x is more or less what Windows 8's interface should have been like. It's not really similar to Windows 8's interface at all really. It doesn't have two completely different desktop interfaces fighting for the user's focus. It has one desktop interface that uses an overlay to manage and launch programs on the desktop. If anything, it is vastly superior in every metric in comparison.
What a DE looks like by default doesn't matter since your average users will download a distro with a preconfigured desktop interface in the same way Windows and Mac OSX are already preconfigured for users. The latest Xubuntu 14.04 has Xfce looking very nice -- much better than XP. The same goes for lxde with Lubuntu 14.04 looking perfectly fine as a compositless desktop running off Openbox and looking beautiful in comparison to XP.
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