Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 11th Jul 2008 22:30 UTC, submitted by pas de calais
"Recently a blog post entitled 'Why Desktop Linux is its own worst enemy' has come across my feed-radar a few times. It's yet another in the long line of 'Linux ain't ready yet' jeremiads and it doesn't really say anything new yet it got on my nerves. Why?" Ryan Cartwright at Freesoftware Magazine is on fine form with this wonderfully splenetic broadside. Read the full tirade at FSM.
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"GNU/Linux cannot be measured in the same way as a proprietary OS"
As someone who works on the inside of a "real" data center I can say we are replacing Windows servers with Linux servers "and" Windows desktops with Linux desktops or OS X.
Yes, there is still a multitude of Windows XP and several Vista machines. Most of these came with the pieces of plastic or steel they were boxed in.
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It's a good article / rant, but even as I migrated from Windows I was aware that Windows != Linux. They are a completely different experience and mindset. Linux has never existed to be a corporate or a consumer operating system (although certain flavors attempt to market themselves as such, which is fine). Honestly, I believe if Linux was a single flavor, and focused on money / consumers, it wouldn't be even as successful today as it is. Linux's success grew from being free to redistribute and modify it, and gave home tech monkeys something wonderful to tinker with and build.