CIB, agreed. Computer software is my career, and a lot of non-work time as well. I have been REALLY into computer technology for over 30 years. I still think it is poorly explained. But in fairness I don’t think it was really meant to show practical uses of multi-desktops, it was meant as a windows slam which Linux people like to do.
Just to start some flames... Linux would have gone NO WHERE, if it weren’t for a bunch of extreme Geeks willing to spend their time in the command line(i.e pre 1960s technology). Fortunately for the world Linux flavors have slowly been awakening to the fact that we have had video for 50 years now, and they are beginning to implement more things graphically, but overall they still have a long way to go.
The particular feature of multi-desktops does not really have much mass market appeal. It is a geek and power user tool. But please if you disagree, please feel free to provide CIB and the rest of us with practical use cases for the average user. :-)
Flames? Sorry--I very much agree with that statement.
...please feel free to provide CIB and the rest of us with practical use cases for the average user. :-)
Well, this thread was meant to be a techy,geeky sort of thread, rather than mass market.
Just to start some flames... Linux would have gone NO WHERE, if it weren’t for a bunch of extreme Geeks willing to spend their time in the command line(i.e pre 1960s technology). Fortunately for the world Linux flavors have slowly been awakening to the fact that we have had video for 50 years now, and they are beginning to implement more things graphically, but overall they still have a long way to go.
I don't know about flames, but I never quite understand why there seems to be such a consensus that the GUI is superior to the command line, or that an OS is bad because it is geeky. According to that logic Ferraris are not as good as Nissans because they are harder to drive and less user friendly. Standard transmissions are also bad and all cars should have automatic transmissions. But, why? Why shouldn't there be cars out there for people who really love driving, even if they represent a tiny part of the market? And yet that is what I read on these threads about Linux. People insist that since it is "geeky" and only has a tiny share of the market it is somehow a failure. I just don't see that.