![]() ![]() And Torvalds, as great as he might be at what he does, is a near-sighted, narrow-minded person as are pretty much all other influential figures at the foundation. Open is good, but with moderation, and Linux is currently too open for its own good. Worst part is that by the time Linux gets close to a good GUI shell it will probably be ruined. Today it is a tad better, but back in the days it was practically impossible to write portable software, you had to chose a platform and stick to it, porting to another platform with its own APIs and idioms is a nightmare. M$ have spent decades locking in software developers. Naturally, the lack of software doesn't help either. Ubuntu is a little better, or more accurately, a little less bad, but still no cigar. I have to spend an hour typing in the terminal to get a new Debian install to work adequately. I am a power user, and use Linux to a decent degree, and I find even the most allegedly "user friendly" distro totally appalling.Ī "mere mortal" could not possibly deal with that, which I guess is true to some degree for windoze, but Linux is just plain out awful. All the major distros, regardless of whatever superlatives whoever may throw at them, are entirely pathetic at providing a decent user experience. Where it lacks is on a GUI shell, which makes it a very lousy user operating system. It is without competition in the server and supercomputer market as well.
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