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Still waiting for Linux to get ready
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[quote][b]Steve[/b] wrote: I've found Linux desktop distros to be highly variable. Easiest one I've used is SuSE by far - Ubuntu pretended to be easy but many aspects were a pain in the ass, such as the default hardware detection totally f***ing up the xorg file and leaving you with total garbage after the login screen unless you switched to a console and manually edited the config file. Hmm, really friendly - not. Until desktop Linux can avoid the 'ah but' clauses that go with just about every set of setup instructions, it's going to remain a niche. I'm a developer and consider myself to be technically proficient but I still haven't found a distro I universally like on the desktop. There's always gotchas and manual hacks needed, version compatibilities and upgrade issues of various types (crossing gcc or kernel versions etc) long term. Nothing really major individually, but each thing just wastes a little bit of time and it all adds up. I also hate the inconsistencies of apps designed for one or other of Gnome / KDE. To be honest, after years of playing I don't really have time to fart around anymore. I'll use Linux on servers without a second thought (because it's great), and I like the _idea_ of Linux on the desktop (and many individual applications), but there's just too many little ideosyncracies and things that waste my time to make it worth using every day. It's like a kit car which needs tinkering with every weekend - great if you've got time to play with it, and like tweaking and customising and refining, but can be rather unproductive if you just want to get in and GO somewhere quickly. Since that's what most people want to do, it's unsurprising desktop Linux hasn't taken off.[/quote]
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