Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Desktop Linux: Difference between revisions

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:::::::: Also, please have a look at [[Talk:Linux#Article structure over multiple articles]], where [[User:ScotXW|ScotXW]] is proposing quite a redo of the Linux-related articles structure. That's something interesting and worth discussing over it.

:::::::: -- [[User:Dsimic|Dsimic]] ([[User talk:Dsimic|talk]]) 10:03, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

::::::;::* Please no more "... it is [[Unix-like]]"-sentences, this ''term'' is totally useless, to put it kindly. In the article [[Linux on the desktop]] I want to learn something about the [[middleware]], i.e. ''all'' the stuff between the [[Linux kernel]] and the [[GNOME Shell]]. How does it work? Why would I want such an operating system on my home desktop, why wouldn't I? Why would I want it in the office? Should we have rather donated money to [[Mesa 3D]] then to [[Mozilla]]? If there is an extra article named [[Controversy over GNOME 3]], how can there not be an article [[Linux on the desktop]]? [[User:ScotXW|ScotXW]] ([[User talk:ScotXW|talk]]) 18:34, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

:::::::::* Hm, that's a good point, but can't we have that described within the [[Desktop environment]] article? From another perspective, what should we eventually do with the [[Desktop environment]] article?

:::::::::: Also, if we go with [[Linux on the desktop]] article, then a lot of ''"it's GNU on the desktop, not Linux"'' people are going to hit us hard. And they're quite right, as it's the KDE, GNOME or whatever on the desktop, and you can also have that with FreeBSD or even through Cygwin or natively on Windows.

:::::::::: Just as a note, only the technically inclined people care about such stuff. I ''do'' care about what's under the hood, but nobody is going to choose Linux just because of its shiny exhaust manifolds, so to speak. :) Such "office workers" people just want to click and print a document, they don't care or know even what ink-jet technology in fact is — for example.

:::::::::: Please don't get me wrong... I ''do'' want and ''love'' tech stuff ''all around,'' but we should keep in mind that we're going to lure nobody into Linux just because we expose all of the gears.

:::::::::: Thoughts? -- [[User:Dsimic|Dsimic]] ([[User talk:Dsimic|talk]]) 18:59, 19 October 2013 (UTC)