Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? 1154
itwbennett writes "Slashdot readers are familiar with the Torvalds/de Icaza slugfest over 'the lack of development in Linux desktop initiatives.' The problem with the Linux desktop boils down to this: We need more applications, and that means making it easier for developers to build them, says Brian Proffitt. 'It's easy to point at solutions like the Linux Standard Base, but that dog won't hunt, possibly because it's not in the commercial vendors' interests to create true cross-distro compatibility. United Linux or a similar consortium probably won't work, for the same reasons,' says Proffitt. So, we put it to the Slashdot community: How would you fix the Linux desktop?"
Knife the Baby (Score:5, Funny)
I would shut linux down and give the money back to its shareholders.
Steam (Score:5, Funny)
will fix the desktop.
Windows 8 (Score:0, Funny)
I would trick Microsoft into releasing Windows 8.
Linux Desktop gets more competitive overnight.
Re:Add Support for Visual Studio (Score:2, Funny)
Calling the Windows API simple and elegant is the funniest thing I've heard all day.
Re:Universal Installer (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One main unified desktop? (Score:4, Funny)
Hmm, I agree on the API part. So maybe a single toolkit like GTK (or some such). I disagree about the single desktop environment. I like Gnome, some people like KDE and you like XKCD. Which one to choose? Is it even possible to have one desktop environment to cater to everyones wishes? MS and Apple seem to think so, but that's why I don't use their OSs.
I do like XKCD [xkcd.com], but I find it makes a lousy desktop environment as it's too distracting. I prefer Xfce [xcfe.org] as a desktop environment.
Re:Universal Installer (Score:3, Funny)
Also, it should hook me up with hot single babes who will do anything I want whenever I want sexually and otherwise, but will only be interested in pleasing me. She shouldn't have the need to sleep. but must be willing and able to do so on command with zero latency.
Do we really need another web browser for porn?
NIH (Score:5, Funny)
Should take a week or two.
Re:Steam (Score:4, Funny)
Tried that. All the moisture destroyed my system. I don't get why everybody keeps babbling about steam.
Re:Fix the Kernel (Score:4, Funny)
My favorite reason for losing a new user, "I got through the install part until it asked me to set a root password, and the keyboard didn't work so I gave up."
I figured it was for the best.