Linked by Will Gunadi on Tue 5th Apr 2005 14:11 UTC
Today, there is no shortage of reviews on Linux on the Desktop, but I think we can benefit from more "Laptopized-Linux" experiences. As laptops keep dropping in price and increasing in terms of computing power, they really make a nice platform even for cpu intensive applications such as sofware development, desktop publishing, web design, etc. And as you will see in this article, installing Linux on a laptop is not as hairy as you may think.
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It is great to see an article that encourages use of a mixed KDE / GNOME environment. There are many GTK apps (like the GIMP), KDE/Qt apps (like Scribus, KDevelop), or independent apps (Firefox, OpenOffice) that you can mix together to make the perfect linux environment for _you_.
It is simply stupid (like UserLinux did) to exclude best of breed linux apps just because they use the "wrong" toolkit. In Ubuntu, even if these apps are not installed by default, they are supported in main, and just an apt get away.
In time, the basic foundation of both desktops will be gradually the same, thanks to the freedesktop efforts. And people won't even notice the difference between the toolkits.