language support (Score 1)

this is absolutely the biggest joke in linux - support for multiple, co-existing languages on the same desktop. No logout/login to change a paragraph into farsi, please! Macs and even poor shlub Windows manage this fine, but talk about a wide-ranging lack of support - internationalization exists in little splintered bits from the kernel to OOo, and is very* inconsistent.

Whether you need multiple languages daily, or just to open/deal with a multibyte font in excel (even though the whole of the file was typed in english), until this is working much* better in linux (crossover office comes close, but not quite), it just isn't going to be an option onn an increasingly-internationalized desktop.