Linked by Kroc Camen on Thu 1st Oct 2009 21:02 UTC
We reported earlier on a blog post entitled "Ubuntu Report Card (2009)" where the author detailed how they felt the Ubuntu experience had improved over the years. In a follow-up series of articles looking at the future, Tanner Helland has written 10 different broadly-scoped feature requests that [he] 'and many others would like to see by the time Ubuntu 10.10 rolls around'.
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2006-04-07
I tried distro after distro since 1998 believing that some point in the future Linux will be an usable desktop. Guess what: I realized I was wrong.
The biggest problems as far as I can see:
1) 10 000 of new wheels each of different size, shape and colour, another 10 000 wheels still to be reinvented
But we don't need 10 000 wheels: we need a single wheel that just spins. We don't need 10 000 libs that do the same thing, we don't need 10 000 file systems, we don't need 10 000 windows managers, 10 000 of desktops environments and 10 000 apps that do the same thing in a crappy way. We do need though a single one of each that does the job.
Nor we do need 10 000 distros. I mean, if Adobe decides to make Photoshop for Linux, they can't because a binary can't support each and every single distro out there. And that's because each distro and each release uses different libs, different desktops, or different versions of the same lib.
The Linux world is too diffused and scattered. For things to work out it would take some unity and a central development team like Haiku has.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Linux is fine for what it is..
But a serious option for the desktop, don't see it ever happen.