The Day, Or Year, The Linux Desktop Died - InformationWeek

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Argh! That linked page consistently freezes the version of Firefox I'm running on BeOS. I don't know what it's doing, but it kills it every time.

Ironically, I'm using BeOS because I think Linux desktop sucks. I tried about 7 different distros of Linux, but hated them all. Linux GUIs (Gnome, KDE) are so damn slow and jerky, they make even the bloatware Windows seem zippy. (and that's only part of the reason Linux desktop sucks)

What spec are you running BeOS on.  I thought you need an old single core machine with <128 meg ram

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BTW: I doubt that computing can get any "untechier" than with Ubuntu...

have they fixed dial up ppp on Ubuntu yet?  yes you MIGHT need dial up, especially if like me you have mobile broadband modem which Ubuntu wouldn't pick up so i had to use a dial up modem to get the driver for the mobile modem, but dial up simply would not work: used wvdial gnome ppp, nothing worked.  But having said that dial up was fine on Mandriva, but having said that the mobile broadband package that i downloaded was for Ubuntu..i got mobile broadband to work eventually with ubuntu, but it was not fun..