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The True Challenges of Desktop Linux

Posted by timothy on from the editing-video-would-be-nice dept.

olau writes "Hot on the heels on the opinion piece on how Mac OS X killed Linux on the desktop is a more levelheaded analysis by another GNOME old-timer Christian Schaller who doesn't think Mac OS X killed anything. In fact, in spite of the hype surrounding Mac OS X, it seems to barely have made a dent in the overall market, he argues. Instead he points to a much longer list of thorny issues that Linux historically has faced as a contender to Microsoft's double-monopoly on the OS and the Office suite."

5 of 505 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Fuck Firefox 14. by Killall+-9+Bash · · Score: 4, Funny

    14?! holy fuck, im still using 3.5.11

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    "Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
  2. Re:Fuck Firefox 14. by BigBunion · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is SO last month!

  3. Re:mac is linux by atlasdropperofworlds · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now THAT's a proper ad hominem.

  4. Re:Um....no. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly! OSX is Linux. FreeBSD is a top notch linux distro

  5. WRONG! by decora · · Score: 3, Funny

    clearly, OsX is a white rabbit , about 6 feet tall, whose name is Charlie. He gives me carrots if I sing American Pie in falsetto while on tiptoe. I told him that I shall stop, for the store sells carrots for 6 pence and 3 shillings. He told me very well.

    I went to the store. No carrots.

    Explain that to me? Will you?