Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Aug 2009 17:55 UTC
X11, Window Managers Over the past couple of months, and especially over the past couple of weeks, I've been working very hard to write and complete my thesis. I performed all the work on Windows 7, but now that the thesis is finally done, submitted, and accepted, I installed Ubuntu - and immediately I was reminded of why I do not do any serious work on Linux: the train wreck that is X.org.
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Linux is doomed!
by krreagan on Sun 16th Aug 2009 02:02 UTC
krreagan
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2008-04-08

As long as X is used in any form that is close to what it is now, Linux, & the *BSD's are doomed to the current niche market!

OSX has shown that a UNIX can be used successfully on a consumer machine with a solid GUI. So it can be done!

I'm a FBSD geek and wish to hell that there was something else out there (besides OSX) that I could run my stuff on reliably while running UNIX! but I fear that that will never happen!

Until it does, I'll continue to use OSX! The only true option for a UNIX geek who is not an X geek!

Is there any other GUIs that can be used besides X? (I know its not OSS but how about BeOS's GUI or a OSS project to replicate it?... just a thought)

KRR

Edited 2009-08-16 02:06 UTC

RE: Linux is doomed!
by sorpigal on Tue 18th Aug 2009 23:32 in reply to "Linux is doomed!"
sorpigal Member since:
2005-11-02

As a FreeBSD geek I should think that you would be happy that The Standard GUI for all free and open source operating systems is under a BSD-style license. Do you realize that any replacement would probably be under the GPL?

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