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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I think this is probably one of the best comments I have seen in an article such as this. I am kind of a new commer to linux, as I've only been working with it for the past 5 years (ish). I've played with everything from IceWM and KDE to Gnome and Fluxbox... All of them have something unique that they bring to the table worth tinkering with. Just for example, both Gnome and KDE support remote access to file systems via their VFS and KIO interfaces (respectively). While I may be in gnome, I may make use of KDE's kio as there are less issues with saving files back (as VFS has issues with this). But then again XFFM from XFCE4 seems to surpass all of them on SMB browsing simplicity... Here's the great part of all this... That's simply my likes and opinions... Just because I feel this way doesn't mean that you can't run fluxbox with kontact and epiphany. Let the beauty of linux, in it's ability to have this flexibility, shine as opposed to turning it into a turf war. But I totally agree with the article writer in that cross dm apps and usage is the best way to go... then your not limiting yourself...