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Linux *Won't* Fail on the Desktop?
HanzoSan sent in a story claiming that Linux will Succeed on the desktop, and not
just the server market where it already has had much success.
I think that the latest version of KDE has demonstrated
that it can compete, but with the increasing
dependance on file formats that have no support on
Linux, it's going to be awfully difficult. That
said, Linux has been my desktop for many moons,
and I don't plan on changing it (Maybe
If Apple released TiBook's with 3 mouse buttons I'd
at least have an option ;)
...one of two things has to happen. The average user must become more computer savvy, including being able to deal with a command line and wanting to understand to some degree what the OS is doing.
The other thing is Linux will have to become more like a the black box that other OSes are. Everything is hidden and little to no knowledge of what is going on is required.
It is unfortunate but if you look at other technologies, similar things have occurred. For example, look at the automobile. The complexity of them has gotten to the point that the average driver has little idea of the inner workings and they don't really want to know anyway. I realize this is a bad analogy but hoepfully it makes some sense.
"It's comin' back around again..." -RATM
Heh, I always told my Windows-using friends to save any documents they send to me in RTF format so I could Read The Fucker :)
(Alternative for the cuss-o-fobe: Read That File)
"Total destruction the only solution" - Bob Marley
I dunno which of Linux/Windows is better, so I run Cygwin in Win4Lin.
I thought everyone knew... The killer app is here!
Get the various streaming media formats supported on Linux. Get the various video formats supported. Get the various "features" of broken web-browsers supported in Linux browsers. Once all the features of porn sites are easily accessible using Linux, then success will come.
If what you say is true, then these guys are visionaries.
Quote: "The goal of the Pornzilla project is to make Mozilla into a great porn browser."
Note that the project has "Members" (apparently they're not trying to be funny here) as well as a "throbber" feature (whatever that is, I don't really want to know).
The wonders of Open Source...
"There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton
Windows:
Linux:
As you can see, the Windows method is much more user friendly, and takes much less time. Linux will never succeed as long as it is so difficult to install programs.
He asked for it, right? Don't buy into reverse psychology.
Intel transfer the difficult from Hadware to software, for get more power, programmer need more technology. -- chinaitn
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggg.
(Beats head repeatedly against desk)
Linux won. Windows users are constantly dealing with trojan spyware, viruses, increasing licensing costs, mysterious popup ads in the middle of a racing game, applications that think they own the whole system, etc.
Those are the complaints i'm hearing from friends who are casual home users. It's ironic that their reason for using windows is that it's alleged to be user friendly. I just shrug and think "glad it's not me".
If Linux ever achieves a 25% share of the desktop market, it too will probably be afflicted with some of windows' problems... So forget i said anything... keep using windows and wearing the bullseye on YOUR back.
They click the mouse with their index finger; and the next finger over is reserved for when people tell them they should be using Windows.