I’m talking about someone doing production video editing or something. I’m not necessarily talking about the average user here. “Besides, when is the last time that any average user needed to playback video faster than 30 fps?” And if you take these peoples views into regard, the whole argument of it only beeing a lack of data standards collapses completely. A crude example: An editor that could perfectly read and write Office documents wouldn’t be that much of a useful tool, if it didn’t have any search/replace, spell checking or print support? And even if the clones have the basic features and lots of other, some people would still want to use MS Office, because that is what they are used too. In some cases these tools are what make the user want the application for his/her own platform. He talks about tools for modifying the data. Occasionay people do need the actual program they are reffering to. Which could lead one to conclude that the people Rob want to slap until they snap out of it, actually wants the same thing he does.īut that is not the whole truth either. When someone says “Gee, I whish I could buy Office for my Linux box”, in many mean that they would like to have a program that could use the same data files as Office.

The irony of the article is that what he discuss and what he thinks the users want is exactly the same thing. End users just don’t need the slow bloatyness and useless(for them) features. I’m sure there’s many technical points supporting it’s use for specialized applications. I’m no XFree expert, I just know it’s very slow. The Linux community is in need of new, leaner technology. Unfortunatly I have to tell them Windows 95(or whatever other garbage they’re currently using) is actually smoother on their old hardware than Linux will be. They’re under the impression that Linux will actually run faster on old hardware than win9x(as is the case with server tasks). Most of the people I deal with are curious if their old Pentium 120/133’s can be usefull again if they install something like Lycoris for office type work. It _does_ need an entirely new GUI framework of some sort. I even enjoy it:) Linux doesn’t need “one good app” to takeover the desktop market. It should be noted that i’m in no way anti-linux, I even admin several linux and sun servers as part of my daily work. It’s too bad windows 95/98 will still run faster on equivlent low-end machines because of Xfree bloat. GNOME, KDE(and others) are capable of looking very nice and being quite functional. IMHO XFree86 is the main reason we don’t see any of the desktop Linux distributions gaining popularity.

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