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."

Comments

Re:The bubble was never there.

[OutOnARock]

One thing is for sure. Until, on KDE and GNOME and everybody else, every application installs to whatever the hell you want to call the Start button actually happen in a standard and logic fashion as does 99.999% of the the applications the Joe Gamer, Joe Sixpack, and Grandma and Grampa run and install on Windows, Linux will never compete with Windows whatever at that level.

Linux has to climb the hill. You don't get to change that just because don't like the current king of the hill.