I'm not so much a "thin client" user as a remote desktop user. I found that remote X or VNC sessions over the internet (the best you can buy where I live) is unacceptably slow. I currently use NX and it is ok, but experiences regular stalls that I have to kill it to get out of. For thin client or remote desktop to be feasible the xorg must make dramatic improvements in the remote protocols... wcn »

Absolutely the only thing that prevents most of the people in my company and the companies I consult to from having their choice of desk/lap tops is Office and Outlook interoperability. Ya, its a sloppy proprietary document and email/calendaring standard, but we are absolutely stuck with it. I run linux on my desk/lap tops but I keep a session around on a windows 2003 server for document and email exchange. It's inconvenient, slow, lousy at copy&paste and if the vpn isn't available in my location I got nothin! sigh... wcn »

I recently installed Suse 10.3 in my laptop. The install was easy (used the internet install option) and largely proceeded without my attention. However when I went to connect my external monitor and configure a dual headed configuration I was stuck. It took me a full day of fiddling with the xorg.conf just to get it so that I could manually switch the second monitor on and off using xrandr. What about my next visit to the board room and it's overhead projector? Will they wait patiently while I fiddle with my xorg.conf? Not likely. This is one of the reasons why a flagrant Linux bigot like me has to maintain a windows boot partition (and suffer the humiliation of using it in public). Second beef? I only upgraded so that I could "meybe" play all those video and audio clips people keep mailing me. Well no luck there either, but I haven't had a day do dedicate to the task.... Meanwhile I will continue to use linux to develop software using excellent tools like netbeans and eclipse. I will continue so support my customers via a variety of ssl based vpn connections... but I will have to use windows to make presentations and create word docs :( wcn wcn »