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I have added the NPOV tag because advantages and disadvantages should not be made sections. It is okay to recount sourced criticisms or proponents of technology but adding it to the header is taking a view about what is good rather than remaining neutral. gren グレン 02:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
I think user Ahunt should read the X Window and copy_paste articles. Any Linux distro, including live CDs that don't need any hard disk install, allows you to verify by yourself the X Window features. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Touisiau ( talk • contribs) 12:57, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
When Con Kolivas quit working on Linux, it was because of the kernel developers not focusing enough on desktop performance, but the statement from The Economist mentions the distributions that have made Linux available for the desktop. The kernel is different from the GUI so I think maybe a different argument should be used?
See http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.htm
Eboyjr ( talk) 08:00, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I agree, the Economist article has nothing to do with performance, they are talking about desktop usability, they are unrelated topics.
-Me —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.73.149.21 ( talk) 01:01, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Desktop Linux refers to the combination specifically of the GNU Userland with the Linux Kernel. It appears odd that there is no mention of GNU within the article at all considering it is the userland used by every Linux desktop and it is implicitly assumed that a Linux Desktop refers to this combination IRWolfie- ( talk) 14:50, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was procedural close. Per AfD, this article will be merged to Linux#Desktop. -- BDD ( talk) 17:34, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Linux desktop environments → Linux on the desktop – I moved Desktop Linux/ Linux desktop environments to Linux on the desktop because this is what this article will be addressing. This article is NOT about the available desktop environments but more about their technical commonalities, like D-Bus and other projects hosted by freedesktop.org. It is also about Mir, €vdev, Maliit, VDPAU or projects like Liquorix. --Relisted. Steel1943 ( talk) 08:13, 31 October 2013 (UTC) ScotXW ( talk) 09:01, 19 October 2013 (UTC) At the moment the first paragraph is Criticism, but in the future the first paragraph will be software architecture, dealing with the middleware between the Linux kernel and GUIs like GNOME Shell, etc. The article Criticism of desktop Linux should maybe be deleted and its contents added to this article here.
I envision:
ScotXW ( talk) 09:01, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
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I have added the NPOV tag because advantages and disadvantages should not be made sections. It is okay to recount sourced criticisms or proponents of technology but adding it to the header is taking a view about what is good rather than remaining neutral. gren グレン 02:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
I think user Ahunt should read the X Window and copy_paste articles. Any Linux distro, including live CDs that don't need any hard disk install, allows you to verify by yourself the X Window features. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Touisiau ( talk • contribs) 12:57, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
When Con Kolivas quit working on Linux, it was because of the kernel developers not focusing enough on desktop performance, but the statement from The Economist mentions the distributions that have made Linux available for the desktop. The kernel is different from the GUI so I think maybe a different argument should be used?
See http://apcmag.com/why_i_quit_kernel_developer_con_kolivas.htm
Eboyjr ( talk) 08:00, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I agree, the Economist article has nothing to do with performance, they are talking about desktop usability, they are unrelated topics.
-Me —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.73.149.21 ( talk) 01:01, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Desktop Linux refers to the combination specifically of the GNU Userland with the Linux Kernel. It appears odd that there is no mention of GNU within the article at all considering it is the userland used by every Linux desktop and it is implicitly assumed that a Linux Desktop refers to this combination IRWolfie- ( talk) 14:50, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was procedural close. Per AfD, this article will be merged to Linux#Desktop. -- BDD ( talk) 17:34, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Linux desktop environments → Linux on the desktop – I moved Desktop Linux/ Linux desktop environments to Linux on the desktop because this is what this article will be addressing. This article is NOT about the available desktop environments but more about their technical commonalities, like D-Bus and other projects hosted by freedesktop.org. It is also about Mir, €vdev, Maliit, VDPAU or projects like Liquorix. --Relisted. Steel1943 ( talk) 08:13, 31 October 2013 (UTC) ScotXW ( talk) 09:01, 19 October 2013 (UTC) At the moment the first paragraph is Criticism, but in the future the first paragraph will be software architecture, dealing with the middleware between the Linux kernel and GUIs like GNOME Shell, etc. The article Criticism of desktop Linux should maybe be deleted and its contents added to this article here.
I envision:
ScotXW ( talk) 09:01, 19 October 2013 (UTC)