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Originally Posted by fjtorres
A bit harsh.
LINUX is actually a great OS by programmers *for* programmers.
The only thing "wrong" with it is that some people keep trying to make it something else. And it doesn't "take". LINUX is what LINUX is. People should celebrate it for what it is instead of bemoaning what it isn't.  |
Aren't the "people" trying to make it something else pretty much the people behind every large Linux distro? It seems to me that just about every distro I know of has had as its goal to make itself more usable to the average Joe over the last several years. In other words it doesn't seem, in any way, as though Linux is thought of as an OS by and for programmers by its developers.
I agree that de facto it still is just that, as well as being a kudos vehicle for the cool kids who enjoy raging against anything large and established, but it certainly isn't what it wants to be.