>Sorry to burst your bubble, folks, but Linux >just isn't designed to be a desktop OS. Linux is >based off of Minix, which was based off of UNIX. >And UNIX was designed to run on mainframes, not >on my grandmother's PC.
Even Windows is based on old user-undfriendly systemts like VMS and CP/M. Just because the underlying concepts are the same, it doesn't mean that the important part in this perspective (the user inferface) hasn't evolved. Rumours say that Ken Thompson designed Unix to play Space Wars.
Thousands of people have worked on Unix since then, and the original objective seem to have been far away from the result.
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>Sorry to burst your bubble, folks, but Linux >just isn't designed to be a desktop OS. Linux is >based off of Minix, which was based off of UNIX. >And UNIX was designed to run on mainframes, not >on my grandmother's PC. Even Windows is based on old user-undfriendly systemts like VMS and CP/M. Just because the underlying concepts are the same, it doesn't mean that the important part in this perspective (the user inferface) hasn't evolved. Rumours say that Ken Thompson designed Unix to play Space Wars. Thousands of people have worked on Unix since then, and the original objective seem to have been far away from the result.