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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But see, that's the point. The applications under Linux do perform more or less the same functions. You can browse the web, check your email, talk to your friends on ICQ, etc, etc. And of course you can bring up a thousand different examples of how application x does this where as application y doesn't. But all that matters very little if you look at the bigger picture and it turns out both applications allow you to perform the same basic tasks in a logical way. This is certainly the case when you compare most Windows applications with their Linux alternatives.
And while it's really neither here nor there, as I stated above, I fail to see how your Visual Studio example would even be useful. In all my years of development I've never once found myself wanting to change the code right as it was executing. I'd rather have all my testing as automated as possible, so I can run the tests and have them spit out what I want to see or have it tell me to go back to the drawing board. This isn't to say that no one has ever used that feature. It's just an extremely poor example if you ask me.