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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X11 is a big problem, the configuration sucks, selecting a resolution sucks, using different mice and tablets sucks. wacom tablets are supported by the kernel but x11 uses it's own driver which just doesn't work.
Not even to mention the 20 different window managers which
are either slow or lacking in features, write ONE that does work.
I still like the BeOS way of doing things most of the time.