Five ways the Linux desktop shoots itself in the foot

[JoeHill]

Michael Lauzon wrote: 

> An article on ComputerWorld, here is an excertp, to see the five
> reasons you'll have to go to the site:
> 
> "I don't just write about the Linux desktop; I use it every day. At my
> desk, I tend to use MEPIS and Mint, while on the road, it's Ubuntu on
> my Dell netbook and openSUSE on my Lenovo ThinkPad. I do this because
> they work well and they're as safe as a desktop operating system can
> get. So why aren't more people using them?
> 
> "Microsoft is the biggest reason. Microsoft is a jealous monopoly that
> doesn't want to share the desktop with anyone. Desktop Linux is just
> another target in a long list that has included OS/2, DR-DOS, and --
> that eternal thorn in their side -- the Mac. It's no surprise, then,
> to see in the history of the Linux desktop that Microsoft has always
> tried to crush it.
> 
> "The very first attempt at a mass-market Linux desktop, 1999's Corel
> Linux Desktop, lasted less than a year. Why? In 2000, Microsoft paid
> off debt-ridden Corel to kill it.
> 
> "Much more recently, Microsoft, caught by surprise by the rise of
> Linux-powered netbooks, brought XP Home back from the dead and offered
> it to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) for next to nothing to
> stem Linux's rise on low-end netbooks.
> 
> "It's hard to beat a monopoly that will do whatever it takes to make
> sure people don't see there's a better, cheaper alternative. I
> understand that. At the same time, Linux has shot itself in the foot
> quite often. How?"
> 
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/14911/five_ways_the_linux_desktop_shoots_itself_in_the_foot

Oh, lord, why? Every day someone blogs some garbage like this, hoping that
they'll attract a hellstorm of debate and thereby elevate the status of their
pointless blog.

Seen it a trillion times, boring.

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J
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