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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."
1) A very usable, nice-looking GUI
2) All the functionality of Unix/Linux
Those two are mutually exclusive, hence the problem getting a desktop linux machine out of the stone ages.
Do you make a checkbox for every obscure command line parameter or configuration file setting?
It's hard to make a simple interface for a complicated app. What linux needs is a good set of simple apps, and a simple intuitive interface to them.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
OSNews is excellent at creating and fostering the biggest troll articles I've ever read. Most of the stuff that gets posted there has a distinct bitching aspect, the head reviewer there (and article author) used to port BeOS apps and her husband worked for BE directly, I wonder why BeOS was on the list at all? The authors often look at the tech world through their entitlement goggles. That being said, I don't visit osnews anymore because of the ratio of subjective nonsense to valid concerns.