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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It may also help to have a fully tested, guaranteed to work set of hardware packages you can buy, which is also one of the reasons Apple succeeds. There are some machines out there now which are known to be 100% Linux compatible because they come *with* Linux installed.
But they always pack some jive-ass turkey distro on these machines. I know I can't be the only one thinking, when I encounter some new cheapo "Linux machine" being sold at Wal-Mart, "Very nice but...ugh, why'd they use THAT distro?" We all have our preferences but I think most people can agree that any of the Distrowatch top 10 are a better choice than what is commonly offered.
What would be nice is an end-to-end Ubuntu solution, laptop and desktop, which Ubuntu could be rigorously tested with, so just like when you buy a Mac with OS X, you know it works, out of the box (this is my impression anyway). Maybe they could even workout a deal to sex-up the machines with a nice Ubuntu tag/logo on it, and make them cool-looking. Yeah, this would be copying Apple but that's hardly ever stopped Linux before.
This would also benefit the rest of us, because enthusiasts know that Linux is Linux, and if Ubuntu can work 100% with something, so can any other Linux distribution.
Anyway...