Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Wed 13th Apr 2005 06:51 UTC
I've only been using GNU/Linux since 2001, so I won't say that I'm by any means an expert yet, as most of those that are reading this, probably have been using Linux much longer than I have. However, I still have high hopes for the Linux scene. The purpose of this article is to voice my personal opinion on what I feel is keeping GNU/Linux from taking over the mainstream operating system market. My intentions aren't to "badtalk" the open source kernel+apps, but rather give constructive criticsm on what I personally feel it could be done better.
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Yeah, we need something like AutoPackage for the installer. Dont' expect that to be adopted anytime soon as so many people wall up in their little distro fiefdoms.
The games support won't happen for a long time except from a few that do it because it's cool, such as Id and Epic, because (A) you'll never recover your development costs right now targetting linux and more importantly (B) even when there is a substantial marketshare, customer service will be a nightmare for years and years to come. Linux and Mac have about equal market shares, but so many more games are targetted at Mac. Too many distros, too many configurations. Nobody wants to deal with that mess. Don't expect many games to be targetted at Linux for at least another decade. And of course there is the chicken and the egg dilemna for games too (nobody moves over to Linux because there is no games, but game producers won't do a port because there is no market)
And not related to your comments, but Linux needs good RAD development tools. They need to take a look at Visual Studio and other Windows development environments for inspriration. Vi and Emacs doesn't cut it in 2005. Well....vi keybindings cut it, just not vim itself.