The developmental path and sketchy developer website may cast an unfavorable impression about Zenwalk’s trustworthiness as a serious computing platform. The ho-hum impression when first running the live edition does little to encourage users to take this Linux OS for a stroll. Zenwalk Linux becomes a bit more impressive once you get beyond the awkward first-time experience, but it comes with a number of problems that might be prohibitive for a new user looking for an all-purpose Linux OS.
Zenwalk is all but dead as a project. It's own website attests to this fact as there is little activity, barely any users, etc. It's a shame because Zenwalk was lovely. These facts are rather easily discernible by a glance at the Support Forum where the most recent post on the "we need contributors" thread was in 2010. So you're passing judgement against a distro as though it had, by its own incompetence, ended up where it is today. This is a story from several years ago which, as a publication called "Linux Insider" you ought to have known.
As for 'lack lustre desktop' - it works as expected - as a Desktop is supposed to. Anything else is just fancy and totally unnecessary bells and whistles.
All in all this is a very poor article.
Yes, I've wanted to like ZenWalk, as I like the philosphy, but found the same issues. The UI could be upgraded with the use of JWM. I find some of the smaller distros use that in combination with other UIs to modernize the look and keep the UI low on resource usage.
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Zenwalk Linux - A Walk on the Quirky Side
Posted by: Jack M. Germain January 23, 2015 03:51 PMThe developmental path and sketchy developer website may cast an unfavorable impression about Zenwalk’s trustworthiness as a serious computing platform. The ho-hum impression when first running the live edition does little to encourage users to take this Linux OS for a stroll. Zenwalk Linux becomes a bit more impressive once you get beyond the awkward first-time experience, but it comes with a number of problems that might be prohibitive for a new user looking for an all-purpose Linux OS.
As for 'lack lustre desktop' - it works as expected - as a Desktop is supposed to. Anything else is just fancy and totally unnecessary bells and whistles.
All in all this is a very poor article.