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Originally Posted by ardeegee
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Yes, Linux becoming a serious contender as a desktop OS has indeed been touted as 'right around the corner' for more than a decade.
One of the problems, is that the Open Source software movement can be it's own worst enemy.
Though I use Linux every day, and know that it can be made to work quite nicely as a desktop OS, it won't really be ready for prime time as long as Linux developers -
1. Arrogantly assume that doing things differently than Windows is automatically doing them better, even when it's NOT.
2. Believe that having FIFTY mediocre ways of doing something is better than having ONE good way.
3. Invest man-years writing code, and then refuse to spend 10 minutes writing documentation so someone can actually use it.
4. Embrace trendy, convoluted standards that add needless layers of complexity without solving any significant problems, while not bothering to standardize even the most basic features of Linux between different Linux distributions (like the the file system folder hierarchy - should that executable go in usr/bin usr/sbin usr/share/bin?).
5. Assert that some of the STUPIDER Features of -NIX style OS's are sacred cows that can never change, and refuse to discuss it, but then one day suddenly DO change them to something EQUALLY STUPID (because we never dared discuss it.)
6. Prefer to argue ad nauseam about the definition of the word "free", instead of writing code, till the entire discussion becomes totally "free" of meaning, and the project becomes "free" of any value.