Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop

An anonymous reader writes "Every now and then a new- or old-media journalist tries to explain to everyone why Linux is not yet ready for the desktop. However all those men who graduated from their engineering universities years ago have only superficial knowledge about operating systems and their inner works. An unknown author from Russia has decided to draw up a list of technical reasons and limitations hampering Linux domination on the desktop." Some of the gripes listed here really resonate with me, having just moved to an early version of Ubuntu 9.10 on my main testing-stuff laptop; it's frustrating especially that while many seemingly more esoteric things work perfectly, sound now works only in part, and even that partial success took some fiddling.

Comments

Of course it is.

[jw3]

Linux is ready for the desktop.

For my desktop, to be specific. Has been ready for years.

Any other desktops are irrelevant.

j.

Re:Sound and HDs...

[awpoopy]

"I don't care WHERE the problem is. I am a USER and I want my computer to WORK. As a user I ought not to even KNOW the difference between software and hardware..."

"I'd rather pay poolah and give no thanks and get something that works."

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