“Let’s get a couple of things out of the way before I begin. I
know Matt Asay, I like Matt Asay, and I respect Matt Asay. I am, in
fact, slated to moderate a panel for him at his upcoming OSBC
conference.“But the one area in which we’ve never seen eye to eye is the
Linux desktop. I certainly don’t agree that desktop Linux is ‘utter
crap’ compared to Mac or Windows, and I’ve disagreed with his
statements on desktop Linux for years, particularly in the area of
application installation. Matt’s on the record as not liking the
Linux desktop, though I’m not sure why, so the fact that we agree
to disagree on this subject is not surprising…”