Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 85.146.17.158]
on May 18, 2008 02:29 PM
ready for desktop means leaving the terminal alone (bury it), have drivers avaliable for all sorts of hardware, have a good api for programmers to program applications on (see the win api or directx , it's all integrated with one and another and easier to use) . Mainstream people like to play games and not those thirteen in a dozen opensource boring games the mainstream doesn't play.
Also linux people need to get over their free for all, but exclude closed source propeitary software , that's not freedom to me as a user. (maybe as a programmer)
Stop saying linux is easy to install and create pages with each step on how to do it. Mainstream doesn't care about that, they care about OEM and pre-installed with a nice recovery cd.
And using an OS is using it, so get past the install phase and debunking linux is easy to install, start focussing on how to use it.
For instance take Gimp and Paint .NET both opensource, I switched to Paint .NET because it's usable. Maybe the linux community needs to more into the usability stuff some more and stop bickering and being conservative about changing the user interface. Ie get stuff done without using the terminal, now there is a challenge for you. And while you are at it, make it easy and functional. Not those dumbed down wizards you have in Microsoft land. Easy != dumbing it down.
And stop being elite, because that means you will always stay in that little corner where you are now, now where's mainstream to that?
Well here's my 2 cents on that , so basically I agree with the author that a pc is still personal, however you should be able to make the OS personal for you , not the other way around.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 85.146.17.158] on May 18, 2008 02:29 PMAlso linux people need to get over their free for all, but exclude closed source propeitary software , that's not freedom to me as a user. (maybe as a programmer)
Stop saying linux is easy to install and create pages with each step on how to do it. Mainstream doesn't care about that, they care about OEM and pre-installed with a nice recovery cd.
And using an OS is using it, so get past the install phase and debunking linux is easy to install, start focussing on how to use it.
For instance take Gimp and Paint .NET both opensource, I switched to Paint .NET because it's usable. Maybe the linux community needs to more into the usability stuff some more and stop bickering and being conservative about changing the user interface. Ie get stuff done without using the terminal, now there is a challenge for you. And while you are at it, make it easy and functional. Not those dumbed down wizards you have in Microsoft land. Easy != dumbing it down.
And stop being elite, because that means you will always stay in that little corner where you are now, now where's mainstream to that?
Well here's my 2 cents on that , so basically I agree with the author that a pc is still personal, however you should be able to make the OS personal for you , not the other way around.
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