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"Ińaki Silanes" <isilanes@bluebottle.com> wrote in message
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> Next time you feel like berating Linux in the desktop, do the following
> test: see the taskbar, or whatever name the panel at the bottom of your
> Windows desktop bears? Can you make it hide automatically when the cursor
> moves out of it? Oh, sure you can. Now, make it so that its background is
> transparent... easy? Now, make it appear vertically on the left border of
> your screen. Now, deprive it of its system tray (or whatever the thingie
> where the minimized windows go is named. After all, it looks silly in a
> vertical panel), and create a new, independent panel which only contains
> that system tray. Make that systray panel appear on the top border of the
> screen, of at least 50% of the screen width, and automatically growing and
> shrinking to accomodate more or less minimized windows... Did your Windows
> box pass the test?
>

Linux does run bugger-all in the way of games though. Doom and the Quakes,
and that's about it. I never heard of Linux binaries for, say, Age of
Empires, or Diablo II, or Serious Sam... or even DirectX for that matter.

Less bugs and better on the desktop, sure. But as a gaming OS it still has a
long way to go.

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