OSNews: Opinion: Why Linux Isn’t Ready for the Desktop

“First of all, we should agree on what the definition of ‘ready
for the desktop’ stands for. For some of us it refers to a
graphical user interface in which applications have icons and can
be launched in an intuitive manner without the need of complex
commands. Even a Commodore 64 running Geos could be ‘ready for the
desktop’ by this definition, but the fact is that when we read
‘ready for the desktop’ we understand ‘ready to replace Microsoft
Windows.’

“But this definition alone is not enough, most of the people and
the mass media understands that replacing Windows is just not about
booting something different than the Microsoft’s operating system,
it refers to some conceptions such as commercial support, document
compatibility, availability of office tools and other mainstream
applications…”

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