To all the Slashdot *nix geeks:
Jul. 18th, 2005 12:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oneirophreniaThere will NEVER be a widely-used Linux desktop. *nix is far too confusing for most end-users, and far too POWERFUL for them, as well.
On the other hand, there will--and, in fact, already are--*nix-based OSes on desktop computers, eventually. Hell, we've already got one: Apple's OS X (which is currently my favorite desktop OS at least until a version of Longhorn that doesn't suck donkey dick comes out). There's a big market Out There for user-friendly desktop OSes built on *nix cores. The reason no one has tackled this market yet is simple: VERY LITTLE USEFUL PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE. But a lot of very promising starts (OpenOffice 2.0 could be a serious competitor for the MSOffice). Once some bright software company gets it into its head to make a 100% user-friendly Linux distro (with a GUI based on either WinXP's or OS X's basic ideas) AND supplies that distro with a whoooooooole realm of productivity, media, and gaming software, that company will make a fucking fortune.
But don't expect Joe Blutz from down the block to ever jump on the GPL/Linux bandwagon, because chances are he won't have even the vaguest idea what a root account or window manager is even if you sit down and explain it to him seventyfive times straight.
On the other hand, there will--and, in fact, already are--*nix-based OSes on desktop computers, eventually. Hell, we've already got one: Apple's OS X (which is currently my favorite desktop OS at least until a version of Longhorn that doesn't suck donkey dick comes out). There's a big market Out There for user-friendly desktop OSes built on *nix cores. The reason no one has tackled this market yet is simple: VERY LITTLE USEFUL PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE. But a lot of very promising starts (OpenOffice 2.0 could be a serious competitor for the MSOffice). Once some bright software company gets it into its head to make a 100% user-friendly Linux distro (with a GUI based on either WinXP's or OS X's basic ideas) AND supplies that distro with a whoooooooole realm of productivity, media, and gaming software, that company will make a fucking fortune.
But don't expect Joe Blutz from down the block to ever jump on the GPL/Linux bandwagon, because chances are he won't have even the vaguest idea what a root account or window manager is even if you sit down and explain it to him seventyfive times straight.
