Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Desktop Linux

Desktop Linux

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Title of the article has no connection to its contents, which is a bad fork of desktop environment, shell (computing) and WIMP (computing) articles. The core of the article is an unreferenced, unexplained questionable WP:OR sentence in the lead: "The term Desktop Linux refers to all the software components that build a graphical user interface, that is designed for usage with a desktop computer and also devices, that offer identical human interface devices, such as Laptops." First, there is no mention of "Linux" in the underlined section. How does it come in? Second, graphical user interface is an aspect of computer software; it does not consist of software itself. Edits by some users like User:ScotXW has shown that they thought that perhaps "build" means "design and develop" and therefore this article is about software development. (I can't possibly say they are wrong because this jumble of text that asserts the title of "article" itself has no idea.) Third, the reset of the article is barely connected to this sentence.

I was tempted to nominate this article for deletion under CSD:G1 but obviously the word "Linux" in the title is bound to attract Linux fans to say "keep" indiscriminately. Codename Lisa (talk) 15:12, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The article Linux on the desktop is outsourced of the article Linux range of use (the equivalent being de:Linux-Einsatzbereiche), which is outsourced of the article Linux.

1. There is no one Linux operating system, but there is an abundance of Linux kernel-based operating systems. The only software component that all of this OSes have in common is the Linux kernel. The rest of the operating system (even the C standard library!) can differ.

2. The difference of the OSes are either due to the hardware type (embedded computer with only 32MiB of main memory, MMU-less CPU, supercomputer, exotic instruction set, etc.) or due to the Human interface device, i.e. a touchscreen-based UI differs from one for pointing device and computer keyboard.

There articles were IMO inaptly named, and partly miserably written. I just begun changing this, and BAM, useless appears with "critique wannabe". How come, miserably written articles don't bother you? Are you a Linux-hater? Did Linux hurt your feelings?

Are there any technical questions or some comprehension problems regarding the scope or content of the mentioned article?

I, on the other hand, am very tempted to delve into the Chaos Communication Congress-Tschunk-matter. Was that another glorious session? Did the Brain strike again against the enemies of the Wikipedia? ScotXW (talk) 15:37, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:32, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]