99% there

99% there

Posted Mar 2, 2004 8:42 UTC (Tue) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
In reply to: The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge) by dkite
Parent article: The luxury of ignorance: A follow-up (NewsForge)

Certainly my dear old KDE 3.1.3 is very stable and easy to use. From what I hear of 3.2 a lot of the cracks have been filled and shiny bits glued on in the appropriate places. Every release wipes out many of the few remaining Things Which Must Be Done for the current paradigm to work well (even limited but growing fundamental interoperability between GNOME and KDE), and I almost fear what will happen when the coders start turning their hands to less necessary stuff. Compared to a bare MS-Windows system, KDE absolutely rocks.

Now what's missing is about fifty thousand relatively specialised applications. Nothing I must have, but the Dorling Kindersleys and Brittanicas of the world do need to start taking Linux seriously. Else things like Wikipedia will eclipse them. Someone will invent a disconnectable Wikipedia or a FOSS edutainment template system and their market will be gone.

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