Beryl User Interface for Linux Reviewed

techie writes "OSWeekly.com has published a review of Beryl, a very cool looking UI for Linux. Matt Hartley writes, "This release, in my opinion, was the most over-hyped and bug-filled to date. You will have to really hit Technorati to see more of what I'm talking about, but Feisty is as buggy as the beta I tested a short time ago. After completely tossing into the wilds of the ubber-buggy "network-manager," anything running with Edgy supported RT2500 driver shows up, but it will not connect without a special script. Those of you who are on Feisty and need help with your RT2500 cards are welcome to e-mail me for the bash script."

Comments

Who authored Beryl?

[EveryNickIsTaken]

Was this yet another attempt by a programmer to make a non-intuitive GUI overladen with features that the average user would never touch?

Re:Who authored Beryl?

[EveryNickIsTaken]

Second, it's quite modular, and you don't have to use any of its features. Just uncheck them if you don't like them. Yeah, and I don't have to wipe my ass when I take a shit, but hey, I prefer to. If I'm going to run a program and only use 5% of the features, whats the point?

Re:Could we have that in English please

[Master of Transhuman]

Here it is in plain English:

"It really kills me to see people spend so much time to get this running when the "wow" factor wears off fairly quickly."

That is EXACTLY WHY Feisty is buggy, as I've been saying for some time now.

The distros are spending WAY too much time implementing sexy but useless eye candy to compete with Vista while allowing the rest of the distro to lag, especially wireless and laptop support which are CRITICAL for new users.

Shuttleworth (and the rest of the distro heads), WAKE YOUR ASS UP! Start spending more on testing and implementing APPS THAT WORK rather than eye candy! Leave the beta crap for in a beta repository for people who LIKE to break their systems!