That's how I heard about it too, but I haven't picked it up yet, would you say that was a good association?
Yes, I prefer Gnome to KDE by a long way, it's much nicer looking and easier to use, the trick is to use it the way it's intended, instead of trying to control it to work how you think it should
I reverse-engineered all Timex Datalink watches and devices, the Notebook Adapter, and the CRT graphics in Ruby!
Chinese distro (OpenKylin) made to provide independence from western technologies releses its first stable version
An alternative could be something like bookshop.org which is an online book store that supports independent retailers
Larian should be up for consideration