Linked by Preston Liam Whels on Wed 16th Apr 2003 18:07 UTC
Put yourself in his/her shoes. You're a budding young technical writer and the one word you hear popping up in almost every tech-related conversation is, you guessed it, Linux. Now look in the mirror and try to tell yourself you're more than a writer. After all, you write about technology because it not only interests you, but you're accurate and fair enough to tell it like it is. Maybe not.
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Some Linux users seem to think that any distro that tries to simplify itself for the average user is junk and anyone who doesn't want to spend hours reading through rendundant man pages for that one elusive paragraph that actually has something useful in it only to find out it didn't work shouldn't use Linux. Or if the thought of recompiling a kernel doesn't have the same effect as taking viagra.. you shouldn't use Linux. Linux is finally evolving beyond the elite geeky OS to one that can satisfy a broad range of users and some people don't like it.
Then some of them complain about MS lock on the desktop market.
These are things I've noticed in the years of going to Linux forums. I remember when Mandrake was thought of the same way people now think Of Lindows, Lycoris, Xandros. 'It's too easy, you'll never learn about your computer that way.' 'You need to learn how to configure everything, not have it done for you or not use a gui'
Some people want a stable OS with little downtime and easy to use for the average person, now they can have one.