andrew holway wrote:
Linux still falls short in the desktop market. As a novice home user
I disagree with this statement. I have been using Linux on a laptop for the last 7 years, and it works just fine in this paradigm.
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If the apple desktop was ported to linux i think Microsoft would be
Allow me to take a contrarian view. I don't see OSX desktop as being particularly good. I found, when I tried to use it, that it felt as restrictive as some other UI. It has lots of eye candy, and yes, this appeals to some folks. Hey, I like Beryl, but it drives up power consumption. So I disable it.
dead in the water. Gnome is crap and kde is buggy.
Gnome is pretty good, and KDE is reasonable. The latter is a memory hog. The former has some parts that are best left out. All in all I find modern Gnome quite good. Much better than XP.
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