Whenceforth the Ubuntu fanboyz now?

[JoeHill]

On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:22:38 -0500
Stephen Allen got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:

> On 08/02/2007 George Nicol wrote:
> > Perhaps not.  
> 
> Yeah I don't think the Linux desktop is ever going to be reality. It
> goes back to understanding what the market that uses Graphical Desktops
> want. <ie> Marketing for normal everyday users, as opposed to hacker
> culture needs. Nothing wrong with hacker culture though.

Oh, well, I'm sure the millions of hackers who handed you the Linux kernel for
free the last ten years are relieved to hear that ;-)
 
> Apple has spent litterally millions on getting it pretty close to what
> users actually want and like (although not perfect). I don't see Ubuntu
> being the solution either.

Reasons? Facts? Any connection with reality whatsoever? Or just more 'I think
therefore it is.'?
 
> I've been using Linux for probably a decade or little more (mainly as
> server OS). There just isn't the full suite of applications that I need
> to use on a daily basis for the Linux desktop to be reality where I work
> or at my home.

Not yet. Five years ago it was a struggle for me to anything in terms of
'desktop' applications on Linux. Now I plug it in/install it, and it just
works. Is that all of a sudden going to stop for some reason that I am unaware
of?

> Like another poster suggested earlier this week, the desktop application
> suite has to be developed for Linux, in order for the desktop to be even
> a good sell to most people. Unfortuantely that will require  copious
> proprietary products being supported by vendors for Linux. I don't see
> that happening. :(

Jeez, talk about religion. This is absolutely no different than 'As it was in
the beginning, so shall it ever be'. Don't you guys ever get tired of spewing
baseless assumptions?

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