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IMO, X-windows is the culprit. The lack of a real winner takes all windowing solution on Linux means everyone has their different flavor of desktop, all of whi
by gte910h 14y ago
IMO, X-windows is the culprit.
The lack of a real winner takes all windowing solution on Linux means everyone has their different flavor of desktop, all of which are slightly different everywhere. And not like Android different, far worse as far as fragmentation goes, especially sound (if you feel like pointing out sound isn't part of the user interface, I'm going to point out you're not the person who feels undeserved by Linux as is).
I predict Android on the desktop before Linux on the desktop, and if Linux comes to the desktop, it will come mostly from the work of VALVe saying "This is in" and "This is out" and pick the winners and merge them together into a cohesive whole.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoThe existence of X has nothing to do with the multitude of desktop environments. At all. In fact they are almost all working or working to port over to Wayland/Weston already anyway. Why on God's earth would someone want Android on a desktop machine? Why does there need to be one dominant DE anyway? The day that happens is the day the core base of Linux users ditches Linux. It flatly will never happen. You think KDE is going to one day just say "okay GNOME, we quit"?
- gte910h 14y ago>Why does there need to be one dominant DE anyway? Because, if a company is going to write software to run on lots of machines and be closed sourced like most commercial software, it is going to require a pretty stable target to run on. When there are 25 different popular Linux configurations, it is prohibitively expensive to test them all for the number of individual users for each configurations. > You think KDE is going to one day just say "okay GNOME, we quit"? No, I think game/software vendors are going to ignore one or the other, following the lead of someone like valve. Then that one will become very niche, like the BSDs