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- possiblyneil, on 05/18/2008, -8/+254I feel disappointed. Most of these are only ok. The one that I wanted to have was a mock up and there was a Mac lookalike in there. Ah well, no doubt it will spawn a reply post.
- ileftfark, on 05/18/2008, -2/+192Looks more like a "let's see who can put the most widgets and other unnecessary crap on their desktops" list. #7 is an abomination and an affront to the eyes. #1 looks OK, but again, its only a mockup. #10 looks nice, though, in a "I live with my grandma and love D&D" kinda way (NTTAWWT).
Also, I like how the article is the "10 Most Beautiful Linux Desktops", and then right at the top, the author writes "They are not necessarily the most beautiful, but they are certainly very unconventional." What the *****?
Sorry for being cranky, but my Digg comment box is having goddamn seizure, and it's irritating the ***** out of me. - MaxMWood, on 05/18/2008, -3/+110#1 is very nice, shame its only a mock up.
- blackjack75, on 05/18/2008, -1/+105Those are far from being amazingly beautiful and I am certain many users have better desktops than these but, remember how it was in 1998:
http://titaniclinux.net/doclib/content/public/site ...
Note that this is not only one user having very bad taste, all the preinstalled pictures and icons really were *****. I remember the early slackware where after having managed to get X11 to run (no small feat by then) you'd find yourself with a choice of background that included nearly exclusively horribly rendered fractal pictures with colors that even randomness could not have selected.
You can't deny there have been some advances :-) - vanarothiel, on 05/18/2008, -2/+62Buried because Linux can look so much better than these...
- LoveAndSeagulls, on 05/18/2008, -5/+64*****' THING SUCKS
- albi123, on 05/18/2008, -3/+48The only nice one up there was #1, and it is only a mock-up.
- iDiggIt42, on 05/18/2008, -3/+44Sorry for the comment abuse, but this server appears to be an ex-parrot, so here's a mirror:
http://209.85.173.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2co ... - Aeaus, on 05/18/2008, -15/+49Oh the painful irony that most of these are either Vista or OSX clones.
- geoken, on 05/18/2008, -3/+35Gnome Look > GTK 2.x themes > sort by rating.
That'll give you a list superior to this one.
(note: The same can be done on KDE look) - inactive, on 05/18/2008, -1/+31#7? Seriously? Come on. I thought we all grew out of that "HACKERS USE GREEN ON BLACK + ROBOTS" a long time ago.
#1 and #8 are the only decent ones, in my opinion. - desuexmachina, on 05/18/2008, -0/+30Something I would love, just once, is for these sites to give an explanation on how to build some of these, maybe just a list of the apps they're using or how to edit the config files, something to actually teach us how to do this for ourselves. So many of these things are just screenshot lists with no real accompanying information.
- acdcfanbill, on 05/18/2008, -1/+28Dugg for term, 'ex-parrot' :)
- Echomote, on 05/18/2008, -1/+22#1 is awesome. Somebody has *got* to make it real!
- SausageSmith, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2110 is nice, if you're a hobbit.
- EricSancho, on 05/18/2008, -1/+21Linux can do better than that. Right?...
- tyleristheshyt, on 05/18/2008, -2/+21Shouldn't it be "Desktops"?
- Manthem, on 05/18/2008, -1/+20Google has it saved: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2F ...
- inactive, on 05/18/2008, -4/+22***** IT , LETS DO IT LIVE
- TomFrost, on 05/18/2008, -0/+18Surprisingly, neither do Troll and Digg.
- wedges, on 05/18/2008, -0/+17that one is the only one that interests me. i don't use linux myself, i'm all mac, but that interface looks fantastic for a media center or guest computer. can you actually do that with linux?
- n3tfury, on 05/18/2008, -3/+20linuxhaxor.net? rofl.
- Beatmiser, on 05/18/2008, -2/+18Hmmm. I see a blank screen... this some linux feature I'm not aware of?
- gavintlgold, on 05/18/2008, -2/+18That's a mockup :(
- dvdcpu, on 05/18/2008, -1/+17I digg that every freaking time and I don't know why it's so funny.
- inactive, on 05/18/2008, -0/+15I see better ones on the Ubuntu forums every month. Hell I think MINE is better than some of these IMO.
- rieuwa, on 05/18/2008, -3/+17Anyone else affected by "Token appears to be invalid" when digging up/down?
- mossblaser, on 05/18/2008, -4/+18One is an OSX clone, none are vista clones. (really stop thinking glossy + transparency = vista clone - Linux's been doing transparent glossy since before longhorn).
Then again, all are crap (one looks nice but is very inefficient and also a mock up). - t0x2c, on 05/19/2008, -0/+13It's not uncommon for programmers to become bloated and weird.
- valis, on 05/18/2008, -0/+12Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- evilelf2407, on 05/18/2008, -0/+12I used to be into all those widgets and desktop addons. I used to spend a ton of time going through and customizing the visual styles. After a week or two i would always go back to one of the original themes, and i would end up getting rid of the widgets.
- junaru, on 05/18/2008, -2/+14Keep it simple
http://junaru.com/images/febfb.png
If you want a nice desktop check out archlinux artwork forum. - blackjack75, on 05/18/2008, -1/+11Token appears to be invalid.
- Perk, on 05/18/2008, -1/+11Coral got it - http://www.linuxhaxor.net.nyud.net:8080/2008/05/17 ...
- daizaru, on 05/19/2008, -0/+9I would have liked a little bit of a synopsis of how they were made and so forth. The screenshots on their own is kind of blah.
I am by no means an experienced linux user but know more than most. It would take a lot of work to do things like those and it's a little bit of a tease to people not familiar with Linux and expecting something near that and then getting their first glimpse of gnome.
So yeah I feel a little disappointed too. - ptiseb, on 05/18/2008, -0/+9And me ? :
http://screenshot.planet-libre.org/albums/Fluxbox/ ... - Asphyxia8489, on 05/18/2008, -9/+1870 diggs and this thing is already down? FFS, dont people know how to setup servers anymore?
- Asystole, on 05/18/2008, -2/+11Worst domain name... ever.
- Neoanarchist, on 05/18/2008, -1/+9I'm OS X right now but this is neither the time nor place for a comment like that.
- inactive, on 05/18/2008, -1/+910 is nice, if you roll a Night Elf
- Rikiji, on 05/18/2008, -3/+11Average linux user has better desktop than most of them
- pdbailey, on 05/18/2008, -0/+8The first one looks neat too, but you would need to know how well all those integrated bits are, like the ongoing tasks looks nice (better than a dialog just for downloads and another for...) but then you have to wonder how the "my files" works.
- adriaaan, on 10/12/2008, -1/+8Linux can look much better than these. The only ones that caught my eye were #3 and #9, the rest were pretty stupid. I mean, #1 is a mockup, #2 is just an OS X lookalike and #4 is a stock E17 install. Definitely not worthy of the title. Buried.
- EdgeOfEpsilon, on 05/18/2008, -0/+7step in the right direction ;)
- 0L1VER, on 05/18/2008, -2/+9I'm a GNOME user, but I agree with you there.
- sleepwalkers, on 05/18/2008, -3/+10Diggs =/= page views.
- roastedbagel, on 05/18/2008, -3/+10Logged in just to mod you up
/love the username
//Digg needs Caturday - Archer007, on 05/19/2008, -1/+8A classic case of blogspam. I recommend a cracked.com article to ease the pain and a Microsoft-bashing story for taste.
- foofighter828, on 05/19/2008, -1/+8Sometime people from other country don't know plural word.
- mossblaser, on 05/18/2008, -0/+6Urghh.... nasty.
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