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Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop?

Posted by Soulskill on from the solid-color-rectangles dept.

itwbennett writes "Slashdot readers are familiar with the Torvalds/de Icaza slugfest over 'the lack of development in Linux desktop initiatives.' The problem with the Linux desktop boils down to this: We need more applications, and that means making it easier for developers to build them, says Brian Proffitt. 'It's easy to point at solutions like the Linux Standard Base, but that dog won't hunt, possibly because it's not in the commercial vendors' interests to create true cross-distro compatibility. United Linux or a similar consortium probably won't work, for the same reasons,' says Proffitt. So, we put it to the Slashdot community: How would you fix the Linux desktop?"

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  1. Re:Add Support for Visual Studio by Jeng · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So the question comes up

    Is this person a shill? Paid by an astroturfing company.

    Or

    Is this person a paid troll? Paid by /. to generate views.

    Or

    Is this person just a troll?

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  2. Re:Add Support for Visual Studio by Aighearach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I for one don't need more apps or to have my desktop "fixed." Unless by fixed they mean stable, unchanging.

  3. Re:Add Support for Visual Studio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Eclipse is just pure pain. Netbeans feels nicer, but it's got random slowdowns and less support for JavaEE servers (IBM...).
    Both are pretty terrible, to tell the truths, bloated, slow, badly designed from UI perspective...