Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability

ThaReetLad writes "In this article at DevX, Executive Editor A. Russell Jones makes the case for a standardised GUI for Linux. He argues that the promotion of choice of GUI as a positive feature of using Linux is detrimental to its chances of attacking Microsoft's home user monopoly. From the article: '...the open source community must recognize that its primary goals: freedom of choice, freedom of source code, and freedom to alter applications, are not the goals of the average user.' In particular he argues that the choice of desktop between KDE, Gnome, IceWM etc, is not one that a former windows user, even a fairly technically competent one, is going to able to make an informed choice on, and that they should not be forced to make that choice in order to get good use out of any applications they might want to use."

Comments

Re:corepirate nazi execrable vs. the facts

[quinine]

Can we get rid of Katz and replace him with this guy? Please?

Re:Fixing the GUI isn't quite good enough

[codepunk]

You forgot one, you can also lauch a virus more effectivly in windows. Linux is not windows and I hope it never becomes anyting like Windows. A Windows box cannot hold a candle to a Linux machine when it come to getting shit done.