Linux operating system was the hope of a new generation of adventurous youth in 1990s and early 2000s. It was the "freedom" software ecosystem, built on open standards, rock solid, a fortress of security and offered a diversity of "distros". Linux went on to dominate the server space and and other massive systems such as mainframe computers and supercomputers. It can be found as embedded in a lot of devices around us, including the ubiquitous Android phones and tablets.
Linux Mint desktop running Windows 7 and 8
But only 1.5 % of the desktop/laptop users are comfortable with Linux. Though Linux is made by hundred thousands of coders working on their own time, they themselves could be using a Mac or a vastly inferior Windows machine today.
What went wrong?
While a lot of efforts went in to make appealing to desktop user, many hardened supporters - the "fan boys" - made sure that Linux was effectively killed on the block. The PC revolution was ushered in by Apple, which created a machine that could be accessible even to the most uneducated. Though this vision did not translate into a business success for Apple (another spectacular example for lack of perception), personal computing revolution never looked back.
Linux flag wavers singularly lacked the perception on what the accessibility and adaptability mean to desktop users. "Linux was not designed for idoits (sic) like you. People who do not know what they are doing should not be allowed near a computer," rants one Linux fanatic.
One small example will illustrate this point better. Nautilus, the file manager seen in many Linux desktops, used to have a nifty and useful function. Hit F3 and you could split the window into two and use it to move or copy files from one folder to another. In one of the recent upgrades of Nautilus, the team decided that managing files in this manner is too simple an affair for clever people to indulge in. So they removed this feature and now the user has to open two windows of Nautilus, one after another, position them side by side, to get the same effect.
You can change by doing many things, but you need perceive the change to really succeed. "You have to think about what the actual user experiences when he or she sits down to do actual stuff, and you have to think about it from the user's point of view." Though "fan boys" will be fast with rebuttals, but the 1.5% usage limit testifies something.
More reading:
Linux's chance has gone
Desktop Linux: The Dream Is Dead
The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story
Major Linux Problems on the Desktop or Why Linux is not (yet) Ready for the Desktop, 2015 edition
Is the Linux desktop becoming extinct?
Linux Mint desktop running Windows 7 and 8
But only 1.5 % of the desktop/laptop users are comfortable with Linux. Though Linux is made by hundred thousands of coders working on their own time, they themselves could be using a Mac or a vastly inferior Windows machine today.
What went wrong?
While a lot of efforts went in to make appealing to desktop user, many hardened supporters - the "fan boys" - made sure that Linux was effectively killed on the block. The PC revolution was ushered in by Apple, which created a machine that could be accessible even to the most uneducated. Though this vision did not translate into a business success for Apple (another spectacular example for lack of perception), personal computing revolution never looked back.
Linux flag wavers singularly lacked the perception on what the accessibility and adaptability mean to desktop users. "Linux was not designed for idoits (sic) like you. People who do not know what they are doing should not be allowed near a computer," rants one Linux fanatic.
One small example will illustrate this point better. Nautilus, the file manager seen in many Linux desktops, used to have a nifty and useful function. Hit F3 and you could split the window into two and use it to move or copy files from one folder to another. In one of the recent upgrades of Nautilus, the team decided that managing files in this manner is too simple an affair for clever people to indulge in. So they removed this feature and now the user has to open two windows of Nautilus, one after another, position them side by side, to get the same effect.
You can change by doing many things, but you need perceive the change to really succeed. "You have to think about what the actual user experiences when he or she sits down to do actual stuff, and you have to think about it from the user's point of view." Though "fan boys" will be fast with rebuttals, but the 1.5% usage limit testifies something.
More reading:
Linux's chance has gone
Desktop Linux: The Dream Is Dead
The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story
Major Linux Problems on the Desktop or Why Linux is not (yet) Ready for the Desktop, 2015 edition
Is the Linux desktop becoming extinct?
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