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The Definite Desktop Environment Comparison
Gentu writes "OSNews posted a very long and interesting comparison between the most popular desktop environments today: Windows XP Luna, Mac OS X Aqua, BeOS/Zeta and Unix's KDE and Gnome. Some of the points in the article can be thought to be 'subjective', but overall many good points are made and it seems that there is room for improvement for all DEs."
THen why has their interface gone downhill every release since 95?
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Eugenia is a chick, fer chissakes. I guess dolls can use linux, but by they way you sexist /.ers are talking, you'd think a babe could never get the hang of it.
Have some sensitivity for the weaker sex already.
My school has OS X machines now, and I was happy - finally, a real terminal instead of MacSSH to access my Linux box at home to check on my uptime. Then we have the delete key ... it doesn't work! It's horrible, resorting to backspace, which means scrolling all the way to the end and then over-hitting right arrow, then left arrow, then eventually backspace and erased ... which leads me to my next problem: no mouse support in the terminal! Talk about your out of date UIs...
Jeesh... Leave it up to the slashdot comunity to attack the author for his review becase the X11/XFree86 based DE's came in last. Maybe just once you might look at the review, and think to yourselves... So thats why linux still isn't accepted as a Desktop Enviroment. Yes, its great for servers, and nerds and geeks. No, it will never work for the average user who like to point and click install, or drag and drop. When the vast majority of the world is wrong, its time to reconsider if you are actually right.
Don't waste time... procrastinate now!
"Uh, what?"
It's a typical X Windows canard: "well, we COULD have said nifty feature, but we don't WANT it. But if YOU want it (by the way WE think it's GAUCHE), go ahead an implement it, SUCKER." It's the second most popular pro-X blather, after "does YOUR windowing system have NETWORK TRANSPARENCY?"
Technically, X has indeed progressed to where it's almost as sophisticated at NeWS or NeXT. But nobody on the business end of X ever sees much of that benefit, as applications are by necessity coded for the typical Sun 3/60 with a 4-bit framebuffer, or alternately, for a Sourceforge abandoned el-cheapo "themable" C++ toolkit that requires a trip down a dependency path hell to make building mh look simple. Or maybe they're built against some nifty new microsubversion of GTK, or QT, or or or or or. OR.
This weekend I bought a Powermac to replace a PC running Gentoo Linux. Guess which system was easier to set up subpixel font rendering on? Guess which system allows me printer output that looks EXACTLY as the display does? Guess which system applies my usability configuration COMPLETELY across the board? And guess which system has a million almost identical but actually lethally incompatible text files in a million nonstandard locations controlling every single behavior of the windowing system BUT the one you want to use?
"But I COULD do it, if I thought it wasn't so LAME. By the way, did I mention that MY window system has NETWORK TRANSPARENCY?"
'jfb
To spur "enterprise Linux," Big Bang, the distributed two-phase commit.