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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.
Zero games? Tell that to World of Warcraft, which seems to work fine for me on Ubuntu, straight out of the box, through wine. Also, the idea that Linux has no virus purely because it isn't popular ignores the fact it is very popular for servers which are bigger targets for crackers.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Buy a gaming console. These days I consider it much more likely that commercial PC gaming will go down the drain, then that Linux actually will be getting some decent native support.
Thats not to say that there aren't plenty games in Linux, especially taking Wine and emulation into account and there are plenty of indie titles that get Linux versions, but in big commercial gaming there really hasn't been any real progress in a long long while.