gOS – finally someone sees through the hype

OK, first let me say something, don’t get me wrong. I think its great that there are Linux PCs available to the masses finally.
However what I don’t like is it feels like we’re having to sacrifice to get peoples attention. Yes, they’ll take Linux…when its in a cheap PC that if they like they can reinstall it with Windows (good luck finding the drivers).

So, let me get to the point, I downloaded gOS and ran the live version in a VirtualBox session, and I thought, what’s this?

Not only is it cluttered with over sized icons (Mac-esque), a silly task panel which appears to be being hailed as a great innovation. You open an application and it puts another icon at the bottom, you move onto the panel to open something, it moves out of the way.

Its Linux, but not as you know it.

Well I wish the best of luck to gOS but its not very nice and it could be damaging to the Linux community if peoples opinions of Linux are tainted with this.

Oh, and as for the topic title, I’m referring to this article: gOS: Undocumented Enlightenment