[lugm.org] What killed the Linux desktop

[Avinash Meetoo]

Hi,

(1) Migel is right:the fact that Linux desktop environments sometimes break
backward compatibility and that different distributions tend to differ a
lot internally means that it's actually tough for independent software
developers to port their drivers and desktop apps to Linux.

(2) But, I add, Linux on the desktop is not terribly important.. Linux on
smartphones and tablets is the future and, of course, that's Android :-)

Avinash

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Dominique DERRIER <d.derrier at linkbynet.com
> wrote:

> <troll>
> Yep > the truth is that pulseaudio ruined it. <<
> (like java ?)
> </troll>
>
>
> See you :)
>
> De : Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk<mailto:gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk
> >>
> Répondre à : Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk<mailto:
> gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk>>, LUGM Discuss Mailing List <discuss at discuss.lugm.org
> <mailto:discuss at discuss.lugm.org>>
> Date : Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:13:30 +0200
> À : LUGM Discuss Mailing List <discuss at discuss.lugm.org<mailto:
> discuss at discuss.lugm.org>>
> Objet : Re: [lugm.org] What killed the Linux desktop
>
> No. the truth is that pulseaudio ruined it. Xorg is too horrible. yeah,
> and anything invented
> by
> Lennart Poettering
>  (systemd). :-)
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Vy-Shane Sin Fat <shane at node.mu<mailto:shane at node.mu>>
> To: discuss at lugm.org<mailto:discuss at lugm.org>
> Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2012, 20:58
> Subject: [lugm.org] What killed the Linux desktop
>
> Pretty controversial post by de Icaza.
>
> The thing that I found really interesting is that he was essentially
> making a case that desktop Linux is developer hostile. I thought that
> was pretty damn ironic. After all, Linux is the poster child of Open
> Source.
>
> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
>
> -shane
>
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