Star Desktop Linux for the Home: How and Why?
Linked by John Munsch on Mon 30th Dec 2002 19:05 UTC
Linux Why do it? I am asked this question more often than I expected, even by existing Linux users who I expected to know as well as I the reasons for building a next-generation desktop Linux for the home user. So here are some of my reasons for thinking that we must spend the effort to create a better desktop on Linux than any existing version now has. Editor's Note: Due to a technical glitch, the first segment of this article was ommitted for some readers. If you missed the "why" section, before, you can read it now.
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Re: the option of a Low. I.Q distro
by Max on Tue 31st Dec 2002 00:43 UTC

Low I.Q distro? *ROFL* Quite a lot of smart people use Windows/MacOS. In fact most of them do. The difference is that they have a life. That means they rather not spend their time sitting in the cellar trying to get their scanner working. Every stupid kid can learn to use Linux. It's just that most people (smart or not) don't want to waste their life reading man pages. We have girl/boyfriends and such stuff, you know.

Linux is complex yes. But MacOS X or Windows XP are just as complex under the hood. The trick is to abstract/hide the complexity behind a nice interface. Redhat, Ximian, Sun etc. will do this for Linux. You can't stop it.