> system - aka X-Windows - which is probably the most appalling windowing
> product in existence short of one I'd write myself. It is slow, cumbersome,
> badly supported with device drivers, excruciatingly difficult to set up if
> you are not bulk-standard (depending on whose distribution what bulk
> standard means) and has the performance of a pig with two legs. Until
> X-Windows is replaced with something half decent, IMHO, Linux will always
> bite on the desktop for the average user.
LOL.
A truly accurate description of X-Windows. But its as ingrained as the
equally frightfully unix shells. Trouble is that while noone owns unix, there is
no easy way to fix it. sigh.
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