Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Jul 2006 16:20 UTC, submitted by jchalifour
"They said it at LinuxWorld in Toronto a few months ago. They've buzzed it at analysts, and now the press is saying it to the public. Novell says this is the year of the Linux desktop, and I'm familiar with evidence showing gains in popularity for Linux. Yet, I disagree that this is the year. Nothing is happening this year to make it, specifically, the year of the Linux desktop and I'm going to hypothesize what could change that."
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GAIM and Kopete both lack basic functionality, which is what people use Yahoo and MSN for, mainly file trading and voice/video. This is the fault of those companies, not Linux, but is an issue just the same. It does support all those protocols in a basic way, for text chat, but not what most people actually use them for.
I don't have a problem sending or receiving files with GAIM. As for video, it should have been in GAIM a while ago but it looks like we are going to have to wait until version 2 or 3 before that happens. Fortunately for me and everyone else I know, none of us use the voice/video functionality. Maybe voice/video is popular in some places but not with anyone I've encountered.