Re:Can Desktop Linux Stay Relevant in the Era of Cloud and M...
by rbanffy on Thursday November 24, 2011 @08:05AM
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> I'm more concerned that it seems totally stagnant.
I don't think it's stagnant. I kind of like Unity - it's unobtrusive and direct. I like it a little better than Gnome 3 (mostly because I use the multiple-monitor multiple-desktop thing as a space extender and 3's separate monitor switching breaks that). On a more basic level of functionality, most of my data live on BtrFS filesystems (which is the next-best-thing after ZFS) and comparing if with either NTFS or HFS+ is just cruel. Package management on Ubuntu has been, as in Debian, perfect for most of a decade. Yum is quickly catching up. Programming language support is still excellent and most anything runs, or can be compiled, out of the box. It's been a very long time since I had a major device support hassle either with notebooks or with desktops (the removal of support to buggy-but-Windows-compliant ACPI caused major breakage, but it seems to be stable now).
I don't think it's stagnant. I kind of like Unity - it's unobtrusive and direct. I like it a little better than Gnome 3 (mostly because I use the multiple-monitor multiple-desktop thing as a space extender and 3's separate monitor switching breaks that). On a more basic level of functionality, most of my data live on BtrFS filesystems (which is the next-best-thing after ZFS) and comparing if with either NTFS or HFS+ is just cruel. Package management on Ubuntu has been, as in Debian, perfect for most of a decade. Yum is quickly catching up. Programming language support is still excellent and most anything runs, or can be compiled, out of the box. It's been a very long time since I had a major device support hassle either with notebooks or with desktops (the removal of support to buggy-but-Windows-compliant ACPI caused major breakage, but it seems to be stable now).