Outlook on Linux desktop applications

Linux Desktop Application Prospects-general Linux technology-Linux technology and application information. For more information, see the following section. Fedora Core 8, which is included in the author's laptop of the Linux release. It was originally intended to build a LAMP environment. Perhaps it was just because the LAMP environment was not ideal, but the beautiful 3D desktop was found. I would like to explain that the Linux video card driver is very important for Linux desktop applications. It can be said that the current and future Linux desktop applications can be popularized and promoted, the key is to see the degree of perfection of the video card driver. Without a sound graphics card driver, Linux desktop applications cannot be discussed. Fortunately, nVidia, ATi, and Intel, both of the two giants, now attach great importance to the Linux video card driver.

I have read related articles on the Internet, and it seems that a series of complicated installation and configuration are required to experience the Linux 3D desktop. In fact, this is not the case for my laptop. The graphics card used by the author is ATi MOBILITY Radeon X1300. After the Fedora Core 8 is installed, no settings have been made, and the catalyst driver is directly installed. After the installation, perform necessary settings, restart after the configuration, and enable the desktop effect under Gnome after the restart. Now, you can use the 3D desktop. The entire process is not complex, right? Anyone who has experience using Linux knows that the more system-level software in Linux is difficult to install and configure, the easier it is to install and configure the Catalyst Driver, it seems that ATi has made some effort to drive the Linux version of catalyst.

Linux desktop applications can be divided into three main parts: browsers, application software, and games. The browser is basically mature. When I use FireFox, there are basically no incompatible webpages. Because of the video card driver, FireFox can use hardware acceleration to speed up webpage loading and display. In Windows, IE is in the ideal state. After a long period of time, it will be as slow as a snail bait. In Linux, FireFox does not have this problem. after a long time of use, it is still very fast.

I don't want to talk about the application software. I just want to say that sometimes it will happen.

The last part is the game. I think it is still related to the problem of video card driver. The author's Fedora Core 8 game is still not very good, 3D games can enter, the number of frames is also good, that is, to quit the crash, want to Catalyst Driver for Linux game support is still not perfect. It is also the reason why the graphics card driver does not fully support the game. Currently, there are few Linux-based games. If this problem is solved in the future, there may be a wave of porting existing Windows games to Linux.