desktop kernel comments

[Net Llama!]

Dave Jones' (hint, he works for RH, and on FC, so he has a bias) latest 
blog entry discusses the biggest pain points of some of the more popular 
distros and desktop technologies:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/kernelslacker/31234.html

and he actually is basing his comments off of this:
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000213.html

I'd have to say I agree with most of his points, although I don't 
understand the furor against ndiswrapper.  I use it on one of my boxen 
at home, and it 'just plain works'(tm).  Sure, it would be great not to 
need ndiswrapper, but bashing a solution to a problem is not in anyone's 
best interest.

As for video/X issues, yes KDE is an eye candy/resource hog, but then 
again so is M$-Vista (from what i've seen, and been told, i'm trying not 
to go near it if i can avoid it).  And yes, proprietary/binary X drivers 
  lead to problems, but I don't see that changing any time soon (if 
ever).  The people spending the overwhelming majority of money on 
highend videocards don't care that the drivers are closed source. 
If/when that changes either because they start complaining, or just take 
their money to open source solutions, then we'll see open source drivers 
from the likes of ATI & NVIDIA.