Is Linux Desktop Better Than Windows? (LinuxPlanet)

Is Linux Desktop Better Than Windows? (LinuxPlanet)

"rebuild your hard drive"? LOL, on what planet? - more like: stop X, rm -rf the gnome related subdirs of your home dir, and start X again with virgin settings.

Granted, that's not as bad as rebuilding your hard drive -- but how many non-Unix geeks would be comfortable with that step, or would even have any clue that that step needs to be takes?

And, on the other hand, how many Unix geeks would not gnash their teeth at the ridiculousness of having to take that step with a large directory full of diverse configuaration files, all of which must be rebuilt by hand in order to fix what was probably a problem in one of them?

This is why I don't think that (at least) Gnome is in a state where it is a perfectly clean plug-in replacement on the desktop. Just as Windows develops cruft and brokneness over time, so does Gnome.

-Rob