On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 14:05 -0600, Lonnie Olson wrote: > Yes they are very good points, however her points are based on false > assumptions. She assumes that in order to use Linux she needs to > become an "expert", that it must become her new hobby. It doesn't.
That hasn't been my experience. Linux has come a long way, but if you use it for more than GMail and Facebook, it still occasionally falls over in surprising and non-trivial ways. Doesn't matter whose fault it is. Adobe for keeping Flash proprietary. Disto X for shipping Pulse Audio before it was fully baked. Distro Y for shipping a bad X.org update. Broadcom for not providing wireless drivers. nVidia for providing crappy drivers. Intel for using third party video chip w/o Linux support. Gimp for not supporing 16 bit editing. Whatever. Point is, about twice a year something really surprising comes out of left field and bites me. No big deal, I can roll with it 'cause I've been using Linux for a long time, but it woulda been a deal killer for somebody less obsessive. Personally, I think Linux is best served when we let other people notice how much it rocks on their own instead of acting like missionaries trying to spread the gospels of Linus or Richard. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
