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Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop?
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?"
To further you point, Eclipse is not something I want to spend my day in. I'm tied to windows only because of Visual Studio, I'm doing all of my development (.Net and PHP) in it.
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?
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
And to further the discussion that was your very first post, and probably your last post.
Why even use accounts? Why not post this stuff as AC? As an AC there is plausible deny-ability, you could be a long term lurker, there would be no way to track how long you have been a member of the community.
When you use an account all someone has to do is look at your posting history and say "Yep, nother fucking shill."
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
I for one don't need more apps or to have my desktop "fixed." Unless by fixed they mean stable, unchanging.
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...