While Linux certainly has made great strides in it's usability, ulitity, and perhaps even it's reliability, it was never really intended to be a desktop. For that reason and many others, it pales in comparison to Windows. Also, how can a fragmented community of developers and users (each with their own vision), ever amount to much?
Suprisingly....against all these odds, Linux has still managed to become what it is today....an impressive community effort.
Yet, it is also still a real mess in many other ways.
For example, what Linux needs is not more alpha code apps each doing the very same thing in some slightly different way. Instead there should be fewer and better apps, in hope that some of them might actually work as well as most Windows applications do. And Linux needs big apps. Without them, users will continue to shun Linux. And the only way these things will happen is with good project management and corporate financing. Without them, Linux will always be just a hackers OS.
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While Linux certainly has made great strides in it's usability, ulitity, and perhaps even it's reliability, it was never really intended to be a desktop. For that reason and many others, it pales in comparison to Windows. Also, how can a fragmented community of developers and users (each with their own vision), ever amount to much? Suprisingly....against all these odds, Linux has still managed to become what it is today....an impressive community effort. Yet, it is also still a real mess in many other ways. For example, what Linux needs is not more alpha code apps each doing the very same thing in some slightly different way. Instead there should be fewer and better apps, in hope that some of them might actually work as well as most Windows applications do. And Linux needs big apps. Without them, users will continue to shun Linux. And the only way these things will happen is with good project management and corporate financing. Without them, Linux will always be just a hackers OS.