Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 17, 2009 @11:58PM from the choose-your-own-misadventure dept.

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.

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Re:Games by raddan · 2009-05-18 05:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's extremely silly to even think that VMs are a viable long term solution
Wait, you mean, like virtual 8086 mode? 'Cuz that just didn't work at all for decades.

Let's also not forget that virtual machines have been the main selling point of mainframe systems since the 1960's.