Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Apr 2009 22:32 UTC
According to Canonical head honcho Mark Shuttleworth, Windows 7 presents the ideal opportunity for Linux to gain significant inroads into the desktop market. He said so in an interview with InternetNews. While I certainly do hope so, an eerie sense of deja vu creeps up on me: isn't this like the 923298th opportunity where Linux is supposed to make inroads into the desktop market?
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2008-05-27
Dude, do some analysis of your 10.000 "applications". The repositories of a large distribution, like Debian, contain something like 5000 application, out of which 60% are textmode (mostly utilities or fun stuff - fortune FTW!) and the rest are dependencies. I don't care about libapache2-mod_php or its ilk.
And many of those remaining desktop applications are crap, many unfinished, basically underpowered. A text editor which is unable to print? WTF? Leafpad - till not long ago. An image viewer which can't print? (many of the basic ones couldn't, and I believe many can't to this day - Mirage & co).
Numbers matter only when you have the basic functionalities in place. Start doing something serious with your OS, and you'll see what happens. Like start a business and use only Linux on all your computers...