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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I agree with a lot of the points, what I don't agree with is (for the lack of a better word) the attitute.
So you are complaining that a good graphical ftp client is missing, though it isn't missing at all you just don't want to use kde apps. (Btw. konqueror should also handle these things just fine) Not very convincing. Now if you want to complain about the lack of a good graphical ftp client for gnome, you might have a point. (Though gftp always worked for me the few times I used it).
About the codecs. All I can say is that mplayer and the mplayerplug-in work for me. They really do and I even was able to watch the Star Wars trailer without any crashes. (Considering how much I disliked the new star wars episodes a crash wouldn't have been to bad anyway:).
And using konqueror with either kmplayer or kaffeine as plugins is really a joy.
You shouldn't take your personal experience as the only messure here.
To sum it up, you are right on a lot of points, but your refusal to even look at kde seriously doesn't imho give you the needed perspective to comment on the state of the linux desktop (at least it doesn't help) and taking your own personal experiences (I had a problem, therefore linux is not ready) isn't very convincing either. You write that you never had a problem with Windows XP. Fine for you, but I always had trouble with my Windows installs. Bad luck, my fault, who knows, but me saying that Windows is unuseable because of my troubles would be silly, wouldn't it?