I love where [[http://www.kde.org|KDE]] is going with the [[http://appeal.kde.org/wiki/Appeal|Appeal project]]. Its amazing how open source evolves and develops. Over the last 2 years, both GNOME and KDE have come very close to becoming usable by novice computer users as an easy to use, good looking desktop operating system. And I’m pretty darn sure that with Xgl coming up, and increasing interest from ATI and NVidia to cooperate with FOSS desktops, we will very soon be challenging Mac OSX (I won’t even care to mention Vista in the competition).