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What is preventing linux from having the visual polish that windows and OS X has???
by philliphaydon 9y ago
What is preventing linux from having the visual polish that windows and OS X has???
- pzone 9y ago1. X11/X.Org make precision monitor support (especially DPI) a royal PITA 2. Perpetually broken video card drivers mean basic acceleration can't be relied on. 3. GTK and Qt just don't have the polish of Metro or Cocoa. I think both are prettier than Win32. 4. The comparison isn't all one-sided: Windows definitely has its rough patches too. It's making improvements however so Linux has no room to be complacent.
- s73v3r_ 9y agoWillingness of people who can do that kind of work to do it for Linux.
- quantum_magpie 9y agoAs someone who uses LXDE daily for the past 9 years, and who has a gaming Windows setup, I can tell wholeheartedly that the only thing worse than visual polish of Windows is the GNOME3 and Unity DE's. I also had on couple occasions the misfortune of using OSX, and god it was absolutely horrid. As in, Windows level of bad.