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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A article like this was here yesterday, and today there is another!
WAIT!
I'm not against the author like the (almost) rest of you, I think the author not only has a good point but my own opinion is even more extreme, I won't say my opinion because I would be flamed with 200 comments or more but anyway I agree with the author of this article and with the other one.
But the thing is why that there are a lot of articles like this, probably because as more people start using Linux, either completely new to computers or comming from Windows, they that are not blinded by geeky and freedom (anarchy) dreams, can see the obvious and write articles about what they see...
So it's just a matter of time until these issues are fixed or another OS takes Linux place, my wish is that is wasn't so slow.
As for some of these stupid comments I have to say some things:
1. You are always babbling about freedom, so let people express their opinion freely on medias (OSNews for example)
2. Not everyone is a coder so flaming with comments about patches, fixes, coding and compiling is not nice, that's the programmer job, not users.
3. Comments saying to people go buy OSX are quite dumb because not everybody has the money to buy one.
4. To those who say that some basic features like desktop integration will never happen unless you pay the developers to do it, well... you are probably right and that means I'm (and probably many people) willing to pay about 100? to 150? to have a good Linux desktop, that work, behave and do what I expect from a desktop.
5. Finally about Qt, I don't see anything wrong with it, is GPL but even if it was closed source and commercial I wouldn't mind as long as it work and doesn't make the final product too expensive.