Linked by Ben Mazer on Mon 26th Jan 2004 19:52 UTC
Lately, there has been a "Why linux isn't ready for the desktop" article every 3 days. Most of the time, these articles originate from a lack of understanding or acceptance of the open source system. I'd like to try to address some of the common arguments against linux here, and try to help people understand why linux probably won't be on your desktop for a while.
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Unfortunately, you're kind of in the minority. Linux supports all the major cards out today in 2D (SiS, ATI, NVIDIA, Matrox, and Intel). The other vendors really aren't shipping very many cards today, and between ATI, NVIDIA, and Intel, you've got a majority of the new computer market covered. As for anyone who cares about 3D performance, they have an ATI or NVIDIA card. NVIDIA has 100% support for Linux in their drivers, and ATI, though not as good, has supposedly gotten a lot better with recent releases (I don't own an ATI card so I can't say first-hand).
@Anonymous (videotron.ca) I can verify that I've only had one problem with KDE apps not being installed in the KMenu, and that was with KControl in the prerelease debians for KDE 3.2-RC1.