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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>I have heard slackware is good but the average user or
>newbie would be confused trying to install it
>Mandrake was..
>Ubuntu was..
>All im saying is the people in linux must work together
>thats the whole key
The key to what? Desktop domination?
Desktop domination isnt much a goal in the Linux crowd, you know. Most of them just try their best to make systems they like, not to please some fastidious Windows convert. Besides of a few commercially oriented Linux companies, almost nobody actually dreams of making the distros pleasing for newbies in the first place, because the distros are "desktop ready" for themselves, and have been for some time now.
And most of the people who repeatedly moan about "unusable" desktops, hobbyist developers, "too much choice", missing "installers" and all that stuff, like you do, for example, most certainly dont do any linux development at all, and just scream because theyd like to have Linux as a gratis windows alternative, but are not willing to change a single one of their windows desktop using habbits.
The best proof there is, that people like you have no interest in a community development process or actually software Freedom, is this ridiculous requirement to stop development of most of the lesser known distributions.
I mean, whats wrong with taking the first one, like Mandrake, which you seem to like, and simply ignoring all the others? Why do we have to stomp all the other distributions into the ground, just to give best chances and mind and marketshare to a singe one, to compete against Microsoft? Do you have been so brainwashed with such "one system, one start button, one vendor, one führer" monopoly monoculture slogans, that all you can think of is such a highlanderistic fight to the death, until "there can only be one"?