> >From: Stephan February <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Mon, August 9, 2010 1:31:49 AM >Subject: [Slugnet] The death of desktop Linux > >Assertion: The rise of MacOSX, mobile smart phones and the increasing >importance >of the browser as platform, has rendered Windows largely irrelevant as a >desktop >platform. Unfortunately these trends have taken out desktop Linux as >collateral >damage. > > >Discuss! > > >Cheers >Stephan What a way to start National day! Hmmmm, I am not sure how I see mobile smart phones decreasing the importance of the Windows and Linux desktop. Please kindly elaborate. We are not quite there yet in rendering windows irrelevant. Why? Because majority of the society see computers as very complex tools and won't easily switch to another OS. Therefore, end users are resistant to change from a sense of familiarity with a complex tool. IIRC, there are still people using IE6 based on some report I read this year. And look at how Microsoft got away with the kind of product Vista was. Linux desktops would have gone the way of the dodo if they had remained stagnant. But imho, I have seen improvements in performance, driver support, usability and aesthetics over the last 5 years. As long as there is constant innovation in the FOSS projects related to Desktop Linux, I think Linux Desktops are here to stay. I don't have much insights about the browser as a platform. I think it remains too early to say whether it will have any significant impact on Windows or Linux PS. I am a recent mac owner (due to work reasons) and frankly I can't get used to it the way I picked up linux 5 years ago. But that may just be me. And yes I have a linux bias :)
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