Linux is easily taking the server and geek market but the market were you need to be cool and very userfriendly is not coming to Linux. Linux is just out of ideas and can’t show anything, Linux isn’t a desktop – Linux is still the old terminal with all the commands and the ugly startup and then they are the “Linux inside” people which create a distribution and create all around Linux but as the oldschool Linux is still inside, it doesn’t change… Linux is without a vision – a system that will never suceed because its only like DOS, Linux would win market against DOS but it stopped after that… there are the projects that try to bring desktops for Linux like KDE and Gnome but they are not Linux. Like there is one desktop for Windows and Mac OS X that really wins the people there should be one for Linux but there isn’t, what makes Linux what it is, just better then DOS and only for geeks better then Windows. Apples ideas around x86 are just crazy, limiting and not limiting, they would win people when they would open their system but it looks like they want to wait until Mac OS XI.
Linux wake up and join the straigt idea of Windows and Mac, or keep on geeking and never win the big desktop.
So what do you think…
Linux - a new approach for a driver system like Winows needed?
X - a faster development of Mac OS X-like features and those cool graphic effects? (actually those already showed some cool new things)
KDE and GNOME – who is coming up with what? KDE 4 is supposed to come and come but not this year, I’m pretty sure. GNOME 3? Sometime? The GNOME guys are showing us stuff like the beagle search and a more optimzed desktop in things like configuration (kcontrol is a killer for some people, for me it is).
The next step in the Desktop approach is the new world… a new way of desktop using including all those new things appearing around the world, after Mac OS X Windows will join with Vista and will bring up some standard things but probably won’t come with cool stuff like beagle. Thats the point were Linux could be – but will it be there and how long will it take Linux to get there? At the moment all the diffrent KDE projects popping up showing us ideas for KDE 4 but there is no big roadmap for the KDE 4 wins the desktop approach!
A new Linux driver system (that would allow binary drivers too) and a new KDE or GNOME desktop with cool new improved and very easy ways to use a computer including cool ways with X would bring a big change in the world. An easy way to install Linux drivers and closed driver support would bring more user and then with a new approach to use a desktop would get users like Firefox was able to get so many people!
But who is going to do those changes for Linux? For the desktop/KDE/GNOME world? Who makes the plan and who has a strong voice? Which team can set up the ultimate goals for the real Linux Desktop Approach? That is the key question for Linuxs Desktop success!
Mac OS X on a big screen (30″)
January 28, 2006
So I walked into an Apple Store some days ago and was playing around with an Mac OS X computer with a 30″ screen and this is just unbelievable how awesome using a computer can improve in the future. It’s just that I have 4 desktops on one desktop now! (I never use virutal desktop but need space on my desktop). When you see iPhoto displaying pictures on this whole screen you can see previews of 100 pictures in a good size and it looks so awesome when you have 4 websites next to each other and can switch fast than tabs!
Little question: Is digikam as awesome as iPhoto? Wow iPhoto doesn’t do much but it looks so good and simple!
