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Well in fairness I'm not convinced that the issue is X, as much as the hordes of desktop environments developed on top of X. But even without that, the current
by mpyne 13y ago
Well in fairness I'm not convinced that the issue is X, as much as the hordes of desktop environments developed on top of X.
But even without that, the currently-available DEs are good enough that if simple quality were the only thing holding Linux desktops back, they should be doing much better with market share. So I don't think that is the only issue.
- slurry 13y agoX has a warm place in my heart and has ever since I first logged into my high school's SGI workstation that students Weren't Supposed to Use. However, the multilayering approach encouraged/required by X is a vector for an awful lot of subtle bugs and UX inconsistencies. I don't think it's the only thing holding The Year of the Linux Desktop back, but successful end-user systems all have monolithic graphical user environments, and [GNU/X/]Linux has this bric-a-brac tower of Babel. Attempts to rationalize the tower post-hoc, even with extreme prejudice like Gnome 3, are going to be less effective than building from the ground up IMHO.