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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You know you are winning when they cannot tone the rhetoric down. If Microsoft was not fearful, they would not send all of these paid astroturfers out en masse.
I have it on good word that they have a whole group of people that they pay to comeo out to osnews.com and even slashdot and post endless anti-Linux tirades.
I mean, if Linux is so hopeless, leave us alone. Don't write about it.
some of us poor windows n00bs want more thn anything for linux to suceed, but we feel that will only occur when the 'usability' approaches that of the current flavour of windows.
i dual boot with windows and SUSE, and i am trying to transfer as many of the thing to linux from winblows as i possibly can, but i cannot run all my games on Linux otherwise the transition would be complete.
i installed UT2k4 on SUSE the other day (you may laugh but for me it was a triumph), and i had to mount the blinking DVD in order for SUSE to recognise that it was really a collection of CD installation disks, i mean WTF!?!? yes i managed it (with assistance), but seriously guys this has to change.