Linked by David Adams on Mon 24th Aug 2009 09:21 UTC
A reader asks: Why is Linux still not as user friendly as the two other main OSes with all the people developing for Linux? Is it because it is mainly developed by geeks?
My initial feeling when reading this question was that it was kind of a throwaway, kind of a slam in disguise as a genuine question. But the more I thought about it, the more intrigued I felt. There truly are a large amount of resources being dedicated to the development of Linux and its operating system halo (DEs, drivers, apps, etc). Some of these resources are from large companies (IBM, Red Hat, Novell). Why isn't Linux more user-friendly? Is this an inherent limitation with open source software?
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2005-06-30
I'm well aware of that, lemur2... Actually, I am creating some packages that I might publish on Ubuntu PPA.
However, most users want to use packages, not build them! Not everybody uses Debian-based distributions, either. Personally, I am switching between Ubuntu and Fedora quite regularily. Many developers might face the same problem and don't want to publish packages for multiple distros (or wait for the repos maintainers to roll their own packages), hence why my proposal.