[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“It’s just six months since all of the “2010 will be
the year of the Linux desktop!” articles and I’m getting in early
for 2011, well sort of. I know that you all hate these, but
fortunately this is not such an article. In fact, it’s quite the
reverse.“Let’s face it. Linux is just not going to make much of a dent
on the desktop. We simply cannot compete with Microsoft’s marketing
power (who has all the manufacturers sewn up), nor people’s
unwillingness to change. Linux is not Windows, it’s fair to say.
All of these articles which come out saying things like, “Linux
needs to be more like Windows”, are just utter rubbish. Linux is
Linux, and should concentrate on being Linux. That’s not to say
that we can’t make things easier, but the bottom line is we should
be making great software for us, not to try and win converts.”