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The author of this article seems to think that choice and alternatives are a bad thing.
I'd like to take the opposite position. The more the merrier. Come on in.
Variety drives open source.
I tend to agree. I like being able to install whatever distro I want and add the DE of my choice, and there is a glut of different combos to choose from.
However, are KDE and Gnome going to gradually focus on making their respective DEs work on their own branded OS, rather than any old base system? I know that's a worst case scenario, but putting a lot of added effort into a full OS is a nontrivial investment for a desktop environment. Some mission drift might be expected.