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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The problem with Linux applications is that the developers seem hell bent on copying Microsoft's UI designs to a T. Microsoft's UI sucks. That's why I use a Mac. Why would I want to switch to Linux when most of the desktop environments and apps look like half-baked Microsoft clones? The really bizarre thing is that the latest distros, Red Hat in particular using the Bluecurve theme, look *BETTER* to me than Windows at this point. Good, but the usability is still bad -- because the "let's copy Windows" mentality is blinding everyone to the truth: computer interfaces need to be redesigned nearly from scratch. The current metaphors are breaking down -- complexity and feature bloat is making it more and more difficult to use computers. Something, somewhere, has to give.
Jared