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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the biggest issue is see here is really the sound card complaint which is right on the money.
something like 74% of the sound cards is mass or semi-mass circulation do not support hardware mixing in linux, and dmix is a cludge. how about a standard software mixer build into the alsa system, which only deactivates when their is a hardware mixer available.
reasonably legit points on everything else.
writer is correct about asthetics! if a program looks like crap and is hard to use because of a busy appearance without merrit, then their is a problem. the Gimp is getting better and better, and i think that it is just a few minor or maybee 1 major version from being incredible(Gimp3.0!!) photoshop is quite a bit easier to use until you really learn where everything is in gimp. photoshop also just looks better, more polished, but again, just a matter of time.