Yes, most users don't care abut choice. Average shashdotter is not an average user.
Have you ever considered that sometimes parallel research and design can come up with better results?
Yes. There are advantages to having several approaches to the same problem and developing them in parallel. However, disadvantages far outweigh advantages. Having one single standard design is more important than having best design. Moreover, open source projects have very limited resources and it is better not to spread them among projects solving the same task. If projects working in parallel join, they are usually able to achieve more than each of them separately.
That is the kind of mentality that prevents Linux from being adopted, especially on desktops. 99.9% users don't care about choice. They just want their computers to work and perform certain tasks.
Having many distributions creates these problems: - Software that works on one distro might not work on another distro - Task which is performed on one distro in one way is performed differently on anther distro. Therefore user can't accumulate Linux expertise. - Different look and feel. Therefore user who has experience working with one distro feels uncomfortable with different distro.
Distro stands for "distribution". I would hardly call "Linksys SOHO firewall version" a distro (or even "version"). This is a customized OS designed for a specific purpose/device.
However, there should only be one disro for desktops and one for servers. On desktops, lack of standardization is the main obstacle to Linux adoption.
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Yes, most users don't care abut choice. Average shashdotter is not an average user.
Have you ever considered that sometimes parallel research and design can come up with better results?
Yes. There are advantages to having several approaches to the same problem and developing them in parallel. However, disadvantages far outweigh advantages. Having one single standard design is more important than having best design. Moreover, open source projects have very limited resources and it is better not to spread them among projects solving the same task. If projects working in parallel join, they are usually able to achieve more than each of them separately.
That is the kind of mentality that prevents Linux from being adopted, especially on desktops. 99.9% users don't care about choice. They just want their computers to work and perform certain tasks.
Having many distributions creates these problems:
- Software that works on one distro might not work on another distro
- Task which is performed on one distro in one way is performed differently on anther distro. Therefore user can't accumulate Linux expertise.
- Different look and feel. Therefore user who has experience working with one distro feels uncomfortable with different distro.
Distro stands for "distribution". I would hardly call "Linksys SOHO firewall version" a distro (or even "version"). This is a customized OS designed for a specific purpose/device. However, there should only be one disro for desktops and one for servers. On desktops, lack of standardization is the main obstacle to Linux adoption.
Linux doesn't need any more distros! Linux needs one standard distro.
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