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. gftp is reliable enough, never had problems, but I still more and more often use nautilus, but I guess you have your own reasons
2. As soon as you pay for these codecs for developers to get IP rights to distribute them. Those cannot be included in any distribution or free software, because THEY AREN'T FREE
6. Simpler interface??? You mean like Photoshop. No thanks, some of us have more than 1&1/2 monitor. Personally, I've got 3 on every box. And interface like you wish would screw 70% of my productivity. You can still buy Pixel32 (but I don't recomend that. Version I tried crashed a lot and after I bought it I never received serial)
7. As for bluetooth, it was way more simple than on Windows (v525). As for wireless, ok kernel module and netapplet. Again easier to use than on Windows. As for sharing, well this is a firewall setting and I don't think it should be available in user mode.
8. Most of the times when API breaks, there's a really good reason behind it. Most of developers understand these facts. Other should use yum, apt, emerge or anything else but compiling
Question: How do you dispose software for being ughly (cinelerra)??? Is software less functional then??? My best guess is that Office 2003, Quark,... is complately unfunctional if I take your thinking (they all look but ughly).