Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Feb 2008 21:32 UTC, submitted by Flatland_Spider
The Linux Foundation has posted the second half of its long and thorough interview with Linux founder Linus Torvalds, part of the Foundation's 'open voices' podcast. While the first part of the interview focused on the Linux development community, this time Torvalds sounds off on everything from patents and innovation to the future of Linux. According to Torvalds the reason Linux hasn't taken off is that most people are happy with the way things are. "If you act differently from Windows, even if you act in some ways better, it doesn't matter; better is worse if it's different." Torvalds also attributes much of the frustration with Windows Vista to this same idea. In other words, it's not that Vista is worse than XP, but it's different and that causes distress among users.
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RE[3]: I guess you guys missed it
by autumnlover on Wed 13th Feb 2008 16:29
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Member since:2007-04-12
"About fifteen wasted months of pointless googling and copy-paste howtos.
Wow, after 15 months you still don't know how to use Linux? "
What a conclusion
Don't you think that I can use it ? Isn't logical to assume that person which could compile a program is also able to use Linux ?
But... I also learned that in case of Linux you get what you pay for. And I am sorry for being so rude - but this whole "free" thing really sucks.
Maybe many people can build a washing machine or even a car themselves and successfully use it - but I am simply too lazy and I have more interesting things to do, than build a car with my own hands.
Have luck with that "everything-done-in-simple-mouseclick-now" of yours, I simply just left that wagon.
And be sure that if eventually Linux will dominate the desktop world, I manage to use it and configure myself, you don't get a penny from me for "support", if this is a "long term goal" of that evangelism of yourself and others alike.
And for the time being - when sitting at my computer in spare time I will enjoy Windows XP and shooting down hordes of B-29's at cockpit of my trusty Huckebein, (thanks to Sturmovik'46) instead of googling for howtos and combat endless waves of OS limitations.
Edited 2008-02-13 16:39 UTC
RE[3]: I guess you guys missed it
by Quag7 on Wed 13th Feb 2008 17:38
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Member since:2005-07-28
horsef--k? Just as the size of space and the universe (and therefore its possibilities) is comforting to me, so is the fact that there are always new, avant-garde ways of using the F word.
So here's to the F word. And a proposal for a new distribution: Horsef--k GNU/Linux. If someone can work Horsef--k out to a recursive acronym, we will seriously be in business. What would be even more cutting edge is if you could work the two hyphens into the acronym.
RE[4]: I guess you guys missed it
by KugelKurt on Thu 14th Feb 2008 12:54
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Member since:2005-07-06
horsef--k? Just as the size of space and the universe (and therefore its possibilities) is comforting to me, so is the fact that there are always new, avant-garde ways of using the F word.
You obviously never saw any episode of the Angry Video Game Nerd ;-) http://cinemassacre.com/AVGN/Nes_Nerd_videos.html
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Wow, after 15 months you still don't know how to use Linux?
I'm sorry to destroy you fluffy illusion of Windows but it's shit.
Somehow Windows Media Payer destroyed itself on my WinXP installation. It tells me to reinstall it. A reinstall tries to spy on me with that WGA crap. Of course I didn't install WGA because it sucks. No other operating system nags its users with activation and "genuine advantage" checking.
OK, then I decided to uninstall WMP completely. Yeah, like that was even possible. The uninstall method just hides (!) the application. It's still there. When I delete it manually, it reappears immediately. WTF?!?
The integrated web browser (IE6) doesn't work most of the time. It has no tabs, no pop-up blocker and so on. The updated version of it (IE7) looks and feels like ass. Why can't MS follow simple design rules like putting the menu bar ABOVE the toolbar, not below!? And what's with that f--ked up toolbar?
Why does Firefox, a cross-platform web browser, look better integrated into the Windows desktop than Windows' own browser?
That brings me to another point: Why look and behave so many Windows apps completely different? I thought Linux is the OS with different GUI toolkits mixed. Just look at MS' own stuff: MS Office (each release with a whole new GUI theme), WMP, IE7, and WordPad (WordPad serves as an example of an app that respects my desktop theme settings). Don't get me started on 3rd party apps like Photoshop (Elements) and HandBrake.
The icons on my WinXP desktop constantly regroup themselves. No, the option to group icons automatically is not activated.
Oh, that System Restore feature is another favorite of mine. Actually in theory it's a nice idea to automatically generate restore points when new software is installed and so on. But this horsef--k doesn't work! It either doesn't create restore points or they are broken. With such a broken mechanism that feature does nothing but eating up HDD space. Luckily I was able to deactivate it completely.
Updates are another problem. Not only that WGA stuff mentioned above but the actual release cycle of updates. Yeah, there are these smaller updates every month but why can't the biggest and richest software corporation in history not release a Service Pack every 3 to 8 months? Apple does it, most Linux distributions do it, but Microsoft does not.
Even with an updated WinXP install CD, WinXP comes with almost no drivers. Even with a slipstreamed install CD from summer 2007 I still had to install drivers manually, because sound and network didn't work at all and the graphics card had no accelerated OpenGL drivers.
I could rant about Windows forever but I have more important things to do. I have installed WinXP on my PC next to Linux but I rarely boot XP because it annoys me so much.
I'm not saying that Linux is perfect. No, it's far from perfect. But even with its different GUI toolkits, it offers a more consistent environment than Windows does. When an app freaks out, in the worst case scenario I have to remove its settings folder.
Overall it's not as annoying as Windows.