Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Nov 2004 20:49 UTC
"Desktop Linux is almost soup. We only have a few items left on the short list. Will we do it? If history is an indicator, the answer is yes." Read this article at LXer. Read more for a short list of my personal needs before I could say "yes, I can switch to Linux or FreeBSD full time".
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>1. i dont understnad why you drop a fully working ftp client on the basis of it looking ugly...
I do not like KDE apps. They all look too busy and ugly. I only use K3B or KOffice sometimes, and that's it.
>mplayer is able to handle windows media
No, it's very poor. And Mplayer plugin would crash on the Apple's Star Wars II trailers.
>8. if you stick to packages made for your distro you avoid most if not all of this...
There are apps that I want to try that neither Slackware or Arch Linux include. For these apps, I need to compile them myself.
>10. i could swear that alsa have this. that was supposed to be one of the advances over the old OSD system...
Alsa only provides the dmix plugin. But this only works with about 60% of all the sound apps available (and ONLY after you configure them to use the new mixer). The rest, will either crash or tell you that the sound card is blocked.