Re:Linux needs a standard window manager (Score 1)

Linux has the potential to take over a small share of the enthusiast desktop marker

I would suggest that this, at least, is already happening.

However standardizaion needs to occur and one window manager needs development to the point of having all the niceties that microsoft but without the bugs and secutriy holes.

This is certainly a recurring argument. But we don't seem to have a solution so far. Since no one desktop seems to clearly be best-of-breed for this particular market, perhaps the big distros ought to agree on one, say KDE (toss a coin !), and put their weight behind it.

Clearly one desktop environment isn't going to suit everyone, but there should at least be some sort of common standardised default choice for new users. More experienced users are free to change this as they wish.

Zeshan