Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 20th Aug 2006 03:08 UTC
"If we want open source software to take off on the desktop, we need to reduce the amount of choice and concentrate our efforts into a single app for each purpose. Choice is one of the drawcards of open source software, but if it is ever to receive adoption at any recognisable level on the desktop, there needs to be less of it. More is less and less is more." More here.
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RE: Abstraction betweem System and User
by gpierce on Sun 20th Aug 2006 13:33
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That's precisely it! Windows is no less complex, as the attempt to create Vista shows. It is in fact immensely complex. The difference is that the complexity is concealed behind a lot of GUIs. The fact that the internals are easily accessed in linux is part of its appeal, but also a cause of fear to many.
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2006-02-28
I think the amount of choice available on Linux systems is just great. It provides evrybody with the tools he likes. This is truly great for capable users, but the problem lies elsewhere in my opinion.
The not so capable user wants a system which abstracts him as much as possible from the underlying system. Take a look at Windows or MacOSX. A capable user can fiddle around with the system at a low-level, whereas USERS, people who just want to do browsing, word processing, digital media, etc, look at a desktop environment that juat works (more or less). I am an avid linux user myself on servers and on desktops, but I feel the underlying system still shimmers through to the simple user, too much. This gives an unnecessary feeling of complexity to most distros. And this is the point. It's not the choice in the OSS world as the author claims. It depends on the distros to implement LSB and possibly create a forked distro which is heavily slimmed down and abstracts the system from all those libraries and system tools.