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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Linux will be ready for the desktop when their usable GUIs (ie KDE, Gnome) don't each up all a systems resources
Yep, and when you use that one KDE app on your Gnome system you're bringing in most of the KDE libraries along with it. Today's linux desktop is more bloated than XP, unless you use one of the boxes, maybe XFCE, and don't run any QT/KDE apps.