(06-20-2014, 12:32 PM)Plexcon Wrote:

(06-20-2014, 12:06 PM)erpicci Wrote:

(06-20-2014, 11:25 AM)Plexcon Wrote: http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html#Summary

Thanks for the link.
Please note that, in the Preface of the article you cited, in the fourth paragraph, the author says: "I want to make one thing crystal clear - Windows, in some regards, is even worse than Linux and it's definitely not ready for the desktop either", then he lists some problems with Windows.
Some paragraphs below the author also says: "If you get an impression that Linux sucks - you are largely wrong", and lists some positive aspects of GNU/Linux.
This article seems pro-GNU/Linux in fact.

However, I don't have much confidence in this source, since it is gray literature and, while some points are well documented, some other are not, and the author just gives links to posts on blogs (like blogspot or google+) where users simply express opinions. Moreover, there is not a serious bibliography.

Very true indeed yes, But then the question is for me why isn't there a OS that is REALLY ready for a desktop environment? If all the linux devs were working on 1 distrubution, what would happen?

(06-20-2014, 12:36 PM)L0aD1nG Wrote: Thats something that everyone who uses linux i think would like to happen...but i dont think will ever happen :Cry:

(06-20-2014, 12:44 PM)Plexcon Wrote:

(06-20-2014, 12:36 PM)L0aD1nG Wrote: Thats something that everyone who uses linux i think would like to happen...but i dont think will ever happen :Cry:

Only way I think something like that would happen is when money is involved. When people get payed to work on it, this way they will get more motivation to work on it. I think if there was a kickstarter or something for a really promising project it would get funded in no time. I would like to see that, but IIRC there were some kickstarters already that failed.(Don't pin me on that though)

(06-20-2014, 12:36 PM)L0aD1nG Wrote:

(06-20-2014, 12:32 PM)Plexcon Wrote:

(06-20-2014, 12:06 PM)erpicci Wrote:

(06-20-2014, 11:25 AM)Plexcon Wrote: http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html#Summary

Thanks for the link.
Please note that, in the Preface of the article you cited, in the fourth paragraph, the author says: "I want to make one thing crystal clear - Windows, in some regards, is even worse than Linux and it's definitely not ready for the desktop either", then he lists some problems with Windows.
Some paragraphs below the author also says: "If you get an impression that Linux sucks - you are largely wrong", and lists some positive aspects of GNU/Linux.
This article seems pro-GNU/Linux in fact.

However, I don't have much confidence in this source, since it is gray literature and, while some points are well documented, some other are not, and the author just gives links to posts on blogs (like blogspot or google+) where users simply express opinions. Moreover, there is not a serious bibliography.

Very true indeed yes, But then the question is for me why isn't there a OS that is REALLY ready for a desktop environment? If all the linux devs were working on 1 distrubution, what would happen?

Thats something that everyone who uses linux i think would like to happen...but i dont think will ever happen :Cry:

(06-20-2014, 12:58 PM)chmod Wrote: I wouldn't like this at all. The reason being for me the main selling point is choice, if you don't like how Ubuntu (for example) does things use something else. Yes a lot of distro's fail but that's not the point, the point is that anyone (yes even me or you) could one day decide you know what I don't like something these distro's do and download the source code and build our own version. We can then take this version 'our' distro and freely share it with anyone who wants it, and in turn they are free to modify and improve it any way they see fit.

Having one version of Linux takes away from this mentality IMO and I think that would be a bad thing.

(06-20-2014, 01:28 PM)L0aD1nG Wrote:

(06-20-2014, 12:58 PM)chmod Wrote: I wouldn't like this at all. The reason being for me the main selling point is choice, if you don't like how Ubuntu (for example) does things use something else. Yes a lot of distro's fail but that's not the point, the point is that anyone (yes even me or you) could one day decide you know what I don't like something these distro's do and download the source code and build our own version. We can then take this version 'our' distro and freely share it with anyone who wants it, and in turn they are free to modify and improve it any way they see fit.

Having one version of Linux takes away from this mentality IMO and I think that would be a bad thing.

Well man i will agree with you..but what if it happens and everything is so perfect!?
You don't have the curiosity to check what they can produce all together?

Also ofc if that happen and then they discard the right of every single developer to make his own OS ofc that isnt STICK WITH THE RULES OF LINUX FREEDOM as i mentioned on my first post that i would like this to happen as long as they STICK TO THE RULES OF LINUX FREEDOM.

(06-20-2014, 12:58 PM)chmod Wrote: But that's exactly my point as long as the freedoms of Linux exist (and so they should) there will never be a single distro people will naturally fall out and go off and start a new distro. Besides with all of the speciality distro's out there there's no way it would be practical to have one that tries to do everything, it makes much more sense to have lots of distro's that do a specific thing well rather than one that's mediocre (at best) at everything it will end up just another generic OS like Windows or Mac OSX, and that's not a direction I would like to see Linux take.