Star Desktop Linux: The Final Hurdles; Editorial Follows
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Nov 2004 20:49 UTC
Linux "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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@Thom
by somebody on Tue 9th Nov 2004 23:01 UTC

Aesthetics and usability are two completely unrelated subjects. (No need for psychology here). But satisfaction mostly comes with work being done. Eye candy loses its charm after 1 hour or so, after that everything just as normal as anything else.

btw. Eye candy is mostly a major stopper for functionality, it is mostly CPU burner and nothing else. Try one thing for instance. Take OSX, set dock icons to enlarge on mouse over and start top. Whenever you move mouse over dock CPU gets 95% of usage. All bottom runing applications slow down.

Agree on surrounding environment though.