[Discuss] The next Linux desktop

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 02/10/2012 11:20 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> See... this statement is what distinguishes the "technical elite" from
> the "common masses".  The common masses do want the same desktop. 
> They don't want too many choices.  The egos of the various desktop
> project cores apparently refuse to acknowledge these facts and the
> result is the mess of inconsistency and incompatibility that I described.
>
> The Linux desktop is at least 16 years old (I'm counting from the
> Caldera Network Desktop) and they still haven't gotten it right.  At
> this rate I don't think they ever will.
>
> We do agree on one point: I do want the Macintosh desktop.  It really
> is the best Unix desktop.  Period.
The main question is "what is right". I used to like KDE, then I got
used to Gnome 2, and I am getting comfortable with Gnome 3 (and the
extensions I added). There are certain features that Mac users would
like to see, and other features that Windows users want. Then there are
some features that old command-line Unix users want. I think it is
difficult to come up with a common ground. That is why we always have
had multiple Windows managers and desktop systems. All have to be able
to work in a client-server Linux/Unix environment.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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