Linked by Sean Oliviero on Wed 28th Jul 2004 05:54 UTC
The promise of Desktop Linux (DL) has been long coming. It's made significant progress since the mid-90s when GNOME and KDE came out, giving Linux users a somewhat modern desktop to work upon. However, it's been 7 years and DL hasn't progressed much at all since then. Today, DL is still nothing more than a UNIX-clone with a task bar, a start menu, and a desktop with some icons on it. But why has DL evolved at such a glacial pace?
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I think that 90% problems tha peaople have comes from difficult installation of programs and drivers to linux. This is also main reason why driver vendors doesn't support linux, there is just too many incompatible distros to support. LSB and FHS standard are nice, but there is much more unification needed in dostro world. As long as you need to read readme.txt before you install anything, 90% of population is excluded from the Linux world.