Linked by Mystilleef on Mon 29th Sep 2003 06:30 UTC
Linux will become ubiquitous in the year 3000. Okay, that was a horrible joke. Linux is just a kernel, the engine that runs an operating system. By itself, it is essentially useless. Kernels shouldn't be discussed or noticed by normal users. And as such when providing these users with reviews, previews and "professional" opinions, computer consultants, computer reviewers and computer journalists should not spew headlines like "Linux is not ready for prime time", "Linux on the desktop by XXX", "Linux to takeover Windows", "Linux is not ready for desktop" and so on.
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I'm not complaining, but when I saw this thread and read the article, I rolled my eyes expecting another stupid flame war. The vast majority of the postings have been very insightful.
The only point I'd like to make (and one of the other posters alluded to it) is that we need to make a distiction between "easy to use" and "easy to learn to use". We should definitely be focused on the former rather than the latter.