The question itself presumes that the desktop is the one of paramount importance. The reality is that desktops form a tiny fraction of the computing industry. In the 32 bit segment desktops form a measely 2% (by numbers ) of the market.
Infact there would not be any computing industry as we know it now if it were not for the other 98% almost all of whom run linux. The strength of Linux is it ability to be shaped into whatever one wants. What's more if you need something unique you can build one from scratch. The popularity and flexibility can be gauged from the number of hardware architectures linux supports 33 core architectures, each one with tens of subsets. On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan <[email protected]>wrote: > On 20 May 2013 15:58, Priyanka Sarkar <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are planning to do a story on the same and we would really appreciate > > if you let us know your thoughts on *'Is having too many Linux distros a > > problem?*'. Please share your views on what you think on this. > > My son has never complained that "having Lego bricks in too many sizes > and shapes" is a problem. :-) He understands very well that he might > not need all the different bricks all the time, but some construction > projects he undertake require a subset of those bricks and that he has > never come across a brick that he couldn't use at all, ever. > > So's Linux. > > Binand > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
