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I read this article and couldn't figure out what the author thinks is missing from desktop Linux except some vague idea of elegance.
by GiraffeNecktie 16y ago
I read this article and couldn't figure out what the author thinks is missing from desktop Linux except some vague idea of elegance.
- bni 16y agoI think the article was spot on. This vague idea of elegance you mention is the "magic" that Steve Jobs refers to. To make that happen on the Linux desktop, a really talented developer with good design skills, have to start over from scratch. Leave the legacy toolkits. He will have to be a dictator, uncompromising in the design vision. Good user experiences cannot come out of a committee, or the "open source development model". GNOME and KDE is great, I use them, but they sure do lack the "magic".