Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jan 2006 23:32 UTC
"Linux has made major inroads on servers and in data centers running both open-source and proprietary applications on millions of computers worldwide. We've recently seen the rise of Linux on mobile devices. But the Linux desktop remains elusive. We know it's out there, but it only now seems to be approaching the tipping point."
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2006-01-02
Linux has the foundation, it just needs a lot of polish. It's not that you can't get your hardware working, it's that it requires, for example, dropping down to the command line, or doing creative Googling. That can easily be fixed and I think distros and desktop environments are finally starting to tackle these issues. If KDE really goes ahead with things like RuDi and Solid, then many of the configuration and administration issues that plague non-leet users of Linux will begin to disappear.
There is one place where some serious work needs to be done and that is X and the graphics system in general. X should not be able to touch the hardware directly (leading to crashes and bugs). There needs to be a unified graphics and sound framework for Linux upon which X and the WMs/DEs run. There's entirely too much duplication and incompatibilities in some of these areas (especially sound with OSS, alsa, arts, esd, etc). It should not require jumping through hoops to get DRI and 3d acceleration to work. If the hardware supports it, it should "just work" with X. I shouldn't have to touch xorg.conf unless I want to do something special. It is not enough for distros to make their own bandaid tools that try to take care of this. The base X windows system needs to do all this.