On Apr 28, 2010, at 4:53 AM, Peter Becker wrote:
Can't resist.
I've been using Linux as my main desktop OS for many years now,
nowadays even my wife and daughter use it (and no: I did not force
that, all their machines are dual-boot). At work I often have to use
Windows and apart from performance issues I see lots of usability
problems. Where are the windows that align to each other? The
vertical maximize? A decent quick-start dialog with fast full-text
search? A coherent update mechanism for OS and applications? A well-
structured start menu (i.e. not sorted by vendor names)? A decent
shell and terminal out-of-the-box?
...
On 28/04/10 09:09, opinali wrote:
On 27 abr, 09:45, Christian Edward Gruber
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah. That's awesome. What a wonderfully
naive assertion.
If linux was a platform with merit, it would have met some degree
of success on the desktop...
On the other hand, Linux _does_ have some degree of
desktop-type success in new niches like mobile devices, where Linux
_is_ clearly superior to the competition (surely beats the pants off
WinMob and Symbian). So, thanks for validating my argument. ;-)
I should point out that opinali seems to have missed my comment. I
actually think linux is a platform with merit. And yet, it's got crap
for desktop adoption rates. THAT was the point. That adoption rates
are not caused by merit of the platform. It was an ironic/sarcastic
re-statement of the form used to critique Objective-C by correlating
its adoption with its value... two things that, regardless of your
specific opinion on the language, have no demonstrably causal
connection. Likewise with Linux, NeXTSTEP, BeOS Amiga, OpenBSD, or
any other platform that has some merit in one or more ways, and yet,
failed to be adopted against its various competitors in its perceived
competitive category at a given time.
Linux's mobile success has, again, little to do with its being
"Awesome" in any particular way, but it being free, open, yadda yadda,
and therefore aligned with the profit motive of the vendor (most), or
the ideology of the vendor (Google). Its difference from Symbian and
WinMob is that it's free to use. And SymbianOS for years outstripped
it, so it's a long-game that it's winning on an economic argument.
Clearly it's a great platform for this, but that's not how it won, I
don't believe.
Christian.
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