Torvalds On Desktop Linux's Slow Uptake

javipas notes a Wired piece summarizing a two-part interview with Linus Torvalds that's up at linux-foundation.org (part 1, part 2). In the second part the creator of the Linux kernel gives his view on the limited success of Linux on the desktop. "I have never, ever cared about really anything but the Linux desktop... The desktop is also the thing where people get really upset if something changes, so it's really hard to enter the desktop market because people are used to whatever they used before, mostly Windows... better is worse if it's different."

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It's a fucking computer.

[Ayanami Rei]

It's already dorky. Who gives a shit? People need to get shit done, this isn't like cellphones with bling glued on a ringers and WHERE U AT

Fuck this shit. Fuck wired. The industry is so out of touch with itself that it can give itself a handjob and a pat on the back.

And fuck slashdot too.