Linux’s Desktop Growing Pains

“… blaming instabilities on short-term growing pains from
rapid innovation … is becoming a bit of a broken record with
Linux. There’s always some reason why it’s not quite stable yet,
and why getting the basics (like reliable video playback) right has
taken a backseat to the all-important initiative to integrate
tomorrow’s emerging open source standard for next year’s hybrid
implementation of some future capability that will almost certainly
change the world as we know it.”

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