Dean Wampler's Blog

I got sufficiently frustrated with Windows that I installed Kubuntu on my Thinkpad in a dual-boot configuration. (I'll have to use Windows occasionally.) This will give me a real developer's OS while I wait until I can justify buying a Powerbook. ;) Linux as a desktop OS could really replace Windows, if it had the polish that Windows and OS X have. (Yea, I know that there are a lot of enterprise apps that aren't compatible...) I still haven't gotten my laptop to talk to my WiFi router that's using WPA for security. Also, there are way too many configuration options and the out-of-the box "look and feel" is ugly, even while much more attractive options are a few (hundred?) clicks away. So, it's still way beyond the capabilities of the average computer user to use Linux on the desktop, IMHO. It's been getting better, though, and the Ubuntu project, in particular, is promising. Hopefully, linux will still grow as a desktop OS, although I suspect that most companies and individuals who can drop Windows will chose OS X, instead.