future of the desktop

[ajtiM]

"Thanks to Solid's new UPower, UDev and UDisks backends, the deprecated HAL is 
no longer needed to manage hardware on Linux. Applications do not need to be 
updated to make use of these new backends. The HAL backend is still available 
for systems that do not support UPower. "

It happened with XFCE and now the same story with KDE. Is GNOME next?
How looks like the future of desktop on FreeBSD or is time to install Linux 
here?

Thanks in advance.

Mitja
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