Re:Linux *really* isn't ready for the desktop (Score 1)

I agree with you...the GUI needs work, but at the same time I'm amazed that GUI interfaces have come as far as they have with Linux, considering the hostile world of buggy behemoth software Goliaths (Windoze) swinging swords and throwing spears at the David (Linux) of the industry. I will not complain that things are not as good as they could be. Isn't that why a bunch of us have been moving from Windoze to Linux in the first place? Windoze was not as good as it should have been for reasons well known, so either the bugs got fixed, or the users bugged out. Dissatisfaction is a normal human state; it isn't a perfect world, and Linux is a lot farther down the road than it has any right to be, considering the competition Face it, a lot more of the right people (like you and your critique of X GUI) will have to get fed up before it gets a lot better. When I first looked at Linux, it was a passing fancy, and we downloaded a lot of file sets, and monkeyed with settings just because it was interesting. A lot more of that will have to occur with the GUI before it is fixed, but it is a lot better than it was. The whole Linux thing is almost too good to be true, given the profit-driven economy we live in. Lets all slap each other on the back for the progress made, and dig in to do more of the same; after all, that is reason Linux is giving Mr. Gates heartburn!