Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 30, 2004 04:08 AM
The cause of a lot of Linux's problems is: too many half-baked desktop managers.
Start up Windows, notice that without doing anything special, fonts look great in all applications. You don't even have to know what "font" means. Text just looks good.
Now start Linux. Fonts look OK if the app you run plays nicely with the desktop manager you've chosen. Odds of this are slightly less than 50-50. Otherwise, fonts look like shit, if you're used to Windows.
There are more than enough open source developers to fix this. Problem is, it's so much more fun to develop (and trumpet) your own desktop manager than it is to fix someone else's. Consequently, the Linux desktop is probably doomed for the foreseeable future.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 30, 2004 04:08 AMStart up Windows, notice that without doing anything special, fonts look great in all applications. You don't even have to know what "font" means. Text just looks good.
Now start Linux. Fonts look OK if the app you run plays nicely with the desktop manager you've chosen. Odds of this are slightly less than 50-50. Otherwise, fonts look like shit, if you're used to Windows.
There are more than enough open source developers to fix this. Problem is, it's so much more fun to develop (and trumpet) your own desktop manager than it is to fix someone else's. Consequently, the Linux desktop is probably doomed for the foreseeable future.
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