"Recently, both Novell and Red Hat went on record as dismissing the idea that the consumer Linux desktop is going to be taking off anytime soon. It's not? Has anyone told Asus and Xandros? Everex and gOS? How about Dell and Ubuntu? They're all doing great with consumer Linux desktops." The enterprise Linux leaders are not the ones making strides on the desktop. Does that mean that the Linux desktop has no future, or just that they've let their business focus let them drop the ball on that segment of the market?
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:2005-07-06
There are some games that are windows specific still, and then there's Adobe photoshop, that has managed to become THE icon of what doesn't work under Linus OS-es.
Then there is watching some types of windows specific filmstreams on the net. Example: http://atvs.vg.no/player/?id=15898
Sorry that the example is Norwegian - there are not many sites left that one cannot see.
That's it, I think.
I use Ubuntu at home, and look forward to using eeeXubuntu when the eee gets released in Norway in July (I am waiting for a Norwegian release since I want the Norwegian special character to be on the keyboard).
I do not feel that I'm lacking much.
For my use, Gimp doe as good work as Adobe - I am not a gamer and VG is a newspaper, for crying out loud. I can use a dozen others, so that Linux users cannot read the pages is VG's loss and the other papers gain?!
Nalle Berg
./nalle.
Member since:
2008-04-20
"Desktop Linux is far off unless you want to do basic things like word processing, web browsing, handling e-mail, and setting your own schedules."
I guess if by basic you also mean;
audio, video and sound editing, genealogy, project planning, CAD, desktop publishing, instant messaging, internet phone, web design and pretty much anything I can do on Windows ... then you're right.
Just exactly what is it you CAN'T do on linux? I'd be interested to know, because there's nothing that I've been unable to do as well (if not better) on Linux than I did on windows, and at ZERO cost.
I haven't been able to get a virus to run yet though. Maybe that's what you had in mind.