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The True Challenges of Desktop Linux
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."
you know, I'm surprised by the argument in the article? everybody on /. says that linux isn't an OS, it's an umbrella with plenty of related OSs in there. i include OSX under that umbrella. it's all about the kernel, amirite?
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Nobody killed anything!
Linux and OS X have two completely different target groups.
OS X targets the retarded appliance user that an actual computing environment is a waste to give to. One can easily argue, that it transforms a computer into something that isn't a computer anymore, but a information and entertainment appliance.
Linux targets people who actually use their computer as a *computer*. People who automate their work away, by writing shell scripts, and calling them from udev, cron and keyboary shortcuts, etc. People who adapt the system to their needs, and gain the vast amount of power resulting from really using a universal programmable computing machine. The greatest machine ever invented. The holy grail of information processing.
Nobody of the latter group could even use the former system, since it would be completely crippling and basically useless.
And nobody of the former group even remotely realized the usefulness and power of the latter system.
So stop that nonsensical propaganda!