Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 1st Oct 2009 21:02 UTC
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu We reported earlier on a blog post entitled "Ubuntu Report Card (2009)" where the author detailed how they felt the Ubuntu experience had improved over the years. In a follow-up series of articles looking at the future, Tanner Helland has written 10 different broadly-scoped feature requests that [he] 'and many others would like to see by the time Ubuntu 10.10 rolls around'.
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RE: 1. Run Windows software.
by mabhatter on Fri 2nd Oct 2009 03:25 UTC in reply to "1. Run Windows software."
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Ubuntu needs some "official" way to run Windows software easily and perfectly... something like VMware Fusion's Unity, but totally integrated with the system out of the box (maybe using Virtual Box and the Windows partition that 90% of PCs have).



not really, Ubuntu needs focus on LINUX applications! There's far too much focus on desktop Linux as "windows-cheap". I like that many of the comparisons in the list are to mac.. but I don't want "mac-cheap" either.

I want to see KDE with it's plasmoids and new GUI elements turned into something nobody else has yet. Desktop "Linux" needs it's own way of doing things. Something clean and simple. Ubuntu has one thing going for it only Mac does.. that nearly all the apps are Free Software... there should be less bickering about which apps and more focus on small apps working together well.. that's the "linux" way.

We need more focus on making apps "invisible" on apps as mere "plug-ins" to work with data types... but most importantly we should be focusing on "apps" as toolboxes to build task-specific tools and making desktop distros that play on that fact and lose the old fashioned idea of an application.

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