Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 13, 2007 04:34 PM
98% of the people using Linux client-side isn't doing so because they care less about its' technical superiority. They're doing it because they want a free (as in beer) alternative to Windows, and possibly because they're also tired of Microsoft's behaviour as well. These types of people are more conservative than anyone else about changes to the operating system. They want a bland, simple clone of Windows because it's what they already know...but most critically of all, they don't want to have to think...about anything.
These are the same types of sheep that you'll hear complaining about too many distros and too much choice. Again, the reason why they don't want choice is because having to make a choice requires having to actually think, which is the one thing they will willingly crawl naked over broken glass in order to avoid having to do. They want to be as stupid and ignorant as possible, and they're also not using Linux because they want something technically better, as I said...they're using Linux purely because Microsoft's recent behaviour has made it too painful to stay with Windows. Thus however they still will insist on Linux becoming as much an identical clone of Windows as possible.
As the article also said, people who are experienced enough to want to use Linux on the server are also sufficiently experienced with apt that they don't want to use anything else. Autopackage hence doesn't have much of a chance to do anything.
In general, I've come to feel that just about anybody developing Linux these days should concede the market to Ubuntu, and then go and find something genuinely worthwhile to do with their time, because unless you're following the herd, you're not going to get any appreciation either upstream or down. There are a lot of different types of Linux users, but the one thing they all consistently have in common in my experience is that they're generally far too obnoxious to be worth bothering with.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 13, 2007 04:34 PMThese are the same types of sheep that you'll hear complaining about too many distros and too much choice. Again, the reason why they don't want choice is because having to make a choice requires having to actually think, which is the one thing they will willingly crawl naked over broken glass in order to avoid having to do. They want to be as stupid and ignorant as possible, and they're also not using Linux because they want something technically better, as I said...they're using Linux purely because Microsoft's recent behaviour has made it too painful to stay with Windows. Thus however they still will insist on Linux becoming as much an identical clone of Windows as possible.
As the article also said, people who are experienced enough to want to use Linux on the server are also sufficiently experienced with apt that they don't want to use anything else. Autopackage hence doesn't have much of a chance to do anything.
In general, I've come to feel that just about anybody developing Linux these days should concede the market to Ubuntu, and then go and find something genuinely worthwhile to do with their time, because unless you're following the herd, you're not going to get any appreciation either upstream or down. There are a lot of different types of Linux users, but the one thing they all consistently have in common in my experience is that they're generally far too obnoxious to be worth bothering with.
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