[Discuss] The next Linux desktop

[john saylor]

greetings

On 02/10/2012 10:33 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> The Macintosh desktop works so well because of the Macintosh Human
> Interface Guidelines and the uniform enforcement of those guidelines.

of course, that cannot happen in an open source world. even if a group 
went through the trouble of specifying this interface, there's no way 
they could enforce it on devs. that's kinda what open source is like.

further, just like with one ring, "one desktop to rule them all" is 
going to be evil. we [users] are not all the same, so we are not all 
going to want the same desktop.

i go back and forth between windows and linux and can get stuff done 
regardless of desktop. in fact, generally i don't even care about how 
the desktop metaphor is implemented, i just want to do the work, or 
waste the time, using my computer. also, the desktop metaphor breaks 
with wireless computing devices.

> I've wanted an elegant, functional Linux desktop for 16 years. I've
> grown tired of waiting for it.

sounds like you want the apple desktop. you only have to pay for it to 
have it. it's probably the best way forward for you.

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