New article in the Economist criticizing Linux usability

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On 2 Apr 2012 at 16:43, Sammy Lao wrote:

> http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/03/desktop-linux
> --

Well, he does mention Debian. I sympatised with much of his troubles, 
but what I did was rip out Ubuntu, which wasn't living up to 
expectation anymore, and installed Debian, which, while it is slightly 
dated, it is still reliable. For awhile, Ubuntu had me convinced that I 
didn't need my OS to absolutely and utterly stable. I thought I could 
put in some of the latest applications; live a little. But after a 
while, and on this point I agree with the writer, creators of OS'es 
like Ubuntu became over-zealous and broke a lot of things. But his 
problem is that he is using this idea to whitewash all other Linux 
distros, which is a bit unfair.

Paul
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