Desktop Linux / Free OS is great like the internet -- without html or css. A pipe dream.
There are a thousand toolkits, API's, package management systems (setup files, like .exe), desktop environments, sound systems, etc. that each do 999 of the same thing the other does. This freedom of choice (the choice to make essentially the same things not be interoperable with each other) is what linux is all about and what it will always ever be: shit.
Assuming everyone looks for the same thing (and by thing I mean every details that make you computer experience so personnal) on a computer you are right.
Hopefully it's not true, at all. There is over a billion different users for this poor tens of thousands of possibilities, so it's not that big of a deal. The only problem that exist is people trying to make money on one specific feature they have, by implementing a proprietary system that will force you to choose their system (as a whole) if you need this feature. (my finger points at Apple and Microsoft right now)
You get rid of that, and you get rid of the compatibility problems in months, years at most. And life becomes beautifull, on the web at least.
Developers users and everyone else would benefit from a unified API that encompasses all the calls, functions and features that are redundant between the multitude of toolkits out there (and there are MANY more redundancies than unique features) so that one may, for example: run a simple gnome app natively in kde without loading some or all of the libraries and/or background apps that do *the same exact thing* that the others I'm already running do.
I don't understand how something like this could be likened to giving everyone the same "thing", or as you so eloquently put it, "every details that make you computer experience so personnal".
Their version of KDE 4.1.3 had many backports of 4.2
Then you have the optimized version of OOo, yast has become as fast as synaptic, and it has more developer friendly features installed by default (more than Fedora and no question Ubuntu).
I tried Ubuntu 9 and a coworker just installed Fedora11, sure it may not be simpler than Ubuntu or boot faster than Fedora, but from a developer's point of view, OpenSuse has the most polish for a rock-solid system.
The device is aimed at gamers and TV watchers, generating a 3D image with use of a pair of 0.7-inch OLED panels, which each display separate images, doing away with the ghost imagery that often comes along with 3D displays.
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Desktop Linux / Free OS is great like the internet -- without html or css. A pipe dream.
There are a thousand toolkits, API's, package management systems (setup files, like .exe), desktop environments, sound systems, etc. that each do 999 of the same thing the other does. This freedom of choice (the choice to make essentially the same things not be interoperable with each other) is what linux is all about and what it will always ever be: shit.
**Using opensuse 11.1
Assuming everyone looks for the same thing (and by thing I mean every details that make you computer experience so personnal) on a computer you are right.
Hopefully it's not true, at all.
There is over a billion different users for this poor tens of thousands of possibilities, so it's not that big of a deal.
The only problem that exist is people trying to make money on one specific feature they have, by implementing a proprietary system that will force you to choose their system (as a whole) if you need this feature.
(my finger points at Apple and Microsoft right now)
You get rid of that, and you get rid of the compatibility problems in months, years at most.
And life becomes beautifull, on the web at least.
@ Félix
Developers users and everyone else would benefit from a unified API that encompasses all the calls, functions and features that are redundant between the multitude of toolkits out there (and there are MANY more redundancies than unique features) so that one may, for example: run a simple gnome app natively in kde without loading some or all of the libraries and/or background apps that do *the same exact thing* that the others I'm already running do.
I don't understand how something like this could be likened to giving everyone the same "thing", or as you so eloquently put it, "every details that make you computer experience so personnal".
Yes..... OpenSuse FTW.
Their version of KDE 4.1.3 had many backports of 4.2
Then you have the optimized version of OOo, yast has become as fast as synaptic, and it has more developer friendly features installed by default (more than Fedora and no question Ubuntu).
I tried Ubuntu 9 and a coworker just installed Fedora11, sure it may not be simpler than Ubuntu or boot faster than Fedora, but from a developer's point of view, OpenSuse has the most polish for a rock-solid system.