LPH
07-02-2008, 11:28 AM
Most of the story, Struggling towards a great Linux desktop (http://blogs.computerworld.com/struggling_towards_a_great_linux_desktop), is a Xandros story but there is an excellent introduction to the complexities of Linux on the desktop summed up in the following dichotomy:
The beauty of Linux is that you can have a safe, powerful desktop operating system. The ugly thing about Linux is that it can you also give you enough options to drive you batty.
Yep! Linux on the desktop has the potential of a larger marketshare only if people are able to latch onto the power of the options within the OS.
The beauty of Linux is that you can have a safe, powerful desktop operating system. The ugly thing about Linux is that it can you also give you enough options to drive you batty.
Yep! Linux on the desktop has the potential of a larger marketshare only if people are able to latch onto the power of the options within the OS.