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Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the crushed-by-osx dept.

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."

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  1. Desktops? by gentimjs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are gnome and KDE -really- the only choices? XFCE? ICEwm? Hell, CDE even?! ... or dare I suggest ... Bash ?

    1. Re:Desktops? by Der+PC · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, that's the spirit ! :)

      When the user dislikes the GUIs that actually attempt to be (somewhat) user-friendly, just feed him/her a GUI that is stepwise worse and more user-hostile than the last one.

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  2. Ridiculous... by garion888 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Many anti-MS fanboys complain that Vista is nothing more than XP with a new coat..." Ridiculous...It's nothing more than OS X with a new coat...

  3. actually by theMerovingian · · Score: 5, Funny


    A big problem with GNOME is that it lacks any form of a vision

    Actually gnomes have the ability to see in the infrared spectrum, and get +2 to constitution / -2 to strength.

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    1. Re:actually by xarak · · Score: 5, Funny


      I was going to rate this a -1 Troll, but then I realised trolls were another character class altogether.

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  4. Was that even an article? by Stalyn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck you Slashdot

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  5. Re:The bubble was never there. by El+Torico · · Score: 4, Funny

    To be blunt, most of the linux community are geeks, and geeks basically don't like non-geeks. Linux developers are uber-geeks, and uber-geeks don't like anyone, not even other uber-geeks.

    Yeah, that was a bit harsh, but someone had to say it.

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  6. Re:The bubble was never there. by evil_Tak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Plus they almost destroyed Toontown!