[CS-FSLUG] A new distro model for the real-world desktop

[Ed Hurst]

Timothy Butler wrote:

> That's why Mac OS X is the only successful UNIX on the desktop for  
> average users. (Ironically, it is certified UNIX(R) unlike Linux.)  
> And, while it may not favor the "techie" way of doing things often, I  
> think that alone merits good reason to pay attention to its methods  
> when considering how to make Linux a better desktop platform. Doing it  
> the way it has always been done hasn't gotten us anywhere, as Jonathan  
> noted.

This much is true. The trick is do find a Linux answer to Mac, not some 
slavish copy. For example, I don't care how trivial it sounds, having a 
mouse clipboard separate from any GUI clipboard is critical to how I 
work. It's a primary reason I reject Mac. I realize I can run the X 
server on Mac and get it to work for X-based apps, but that's not Mac, 
that's a hack, a failure to port from X to Cocoa.

Which brings up another question, perhaps worthy of a separate thread: 
Is it just me, or is X.org really badly broken lately? I'm reading what 
seems like a rapid rise in complaints about stuff directly related to 
X.org on lots of forums. Debian's devs say it's not working properly, 
and they simply cannot script the X server setup as they had in the 
past. When I run X configure utility directly, it's leaving out a *lot* 
of stuff it used to write automatically. There are other complaints 
about breaking configs carried over from the previous version. I noticed 
the nv driver will no longer support what my chipset and monitor can do, 
without significant artifacts.

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Ed Hurst
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