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Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst?
El Lobo writes "For the Linux desktop, 2002 was an important year. Since then, we have continuously been fed point releases which added bits of functionality and speed improvements, but no major revision has yet seen the light of day. What's going on?
A big problem with GNOME is that it lacks any form of a vision, a goal, for the next big revision. GNOME 3.0 is just that- a name. All GNOME 3.0 has are some random ideas by random people in random places.
KDE developers are indeed planning big things for KDE4 — but that is what they are stuck at. Show me where the results are.KDE's biggest problem is a lack of manpower and financial backing by big companies.
In the meantime, the competition has not exactly been standing still. Apple has continuously been improving its Mac OS X operating system. Microsoft has not been resting on its laurels either. Windows Vista is already available. Many anti-MS fanboys complain that Vista is nothing more than XP with a new coat, but anyone with an open mind realizes this is absolutely not the case."
Ubuntu is a better desktop than OSX no question case closed don't bother to reply
Personally, I see more fanboyism about it here. But then again, Linux just isn't that great. The entire concept is built around a junky command-line OS that requires a three inch thick book to outline the user/admin commands. And as for "All it takes is for one Linux representative to hire one lawyer", you're assuming that the core linux community is anything but a fragmented group of geeks who refuse to pay for software and are trying to piece together a chunk of code that matches what a company pays hundreds of thousands of professional coders to build.