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Ppl trash windows and then want the exact same thing on Linux
The author talks about how Windows 8 was a disaster and how Microsoft reversed course with Windows 10, but a lot of what they did in Windows 10 was cribbed straight from Gnome. Turning the Windows key into a search function where you can type the first two or three characters of an application and hit enter, that came from Gnome (which, in turn, was inspired directly by the tab-completion interface in modern Linux shells, and part of the reason they started calling it "Gnome Shell"). Microsoft completely reworked the way the "Start" menu works to accommodate this keyboard-driven workflow. Using the Windows key and up / left / right arrow keys to maximize windows or send them to the left / right half of the screen, that also came from Gnome.
Gnome / GTK have made some questionable design choices, but at the same time a lot of these touch-friendly modifications were being introduced, Gnome made a giant leap in terms of keyboard-driven interface which has been copied by its rivals. Not quite to the level you see in tiling window managers, but vastly superior to the status quo of "stacking" window managers of the time, including Windows and Mac OS.
KDE folks have it the worst with this. Calling KDE Plasma a windows clone makes me hurt so much because of how much they contributed to the entire field of computer science and how Windows had copied them as well.
Windows is the ripoff privatized version of KDE.