Fedora (Linux) is Destroying it self

[Nathan Grennan]

On 05/14/2009 03:27 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> The desktop team has always focused on laptops because laptops are the
> harder case, and if you get the laptop right, then you generally get
> the desktop right along the way.

   I agree laptops are harder from a logistics perspective, but I 
disagree that it results in it generally just working for the desktop 
users. I also think desktops are harder from a supporting all the 
different types of hardware perspective.

   Desktop hardware and laptop hardware tend to be so different. Laptops 
are generally a generation behind on motherboard chipsets and 
processors. They tend to have less variety of hardware when it comes to 
network, video, and sound cards. Keyboards on laptops are pretty much 
always done the same way since they are built-in. Mice on laptops are 
almost always trackpads, since they are built-in. Other cards come out 
different too, PCI/PCIe vs Cardbus/ExpressCard/USB.