swhiser wrote:
swhiser wrote:
Karsten Wade wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 20:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
Aza dotzler presentation on requirements for Desktop Linux is a
relevant article for what is appealing to the target audience
http://piercedotzler.com/asa/linux%20%96%20in%20search%20of%20the%20desktop.pdf
Owch, painful to read presentation. Guess my desktop isn't ready for
it.
This is the usual chicken-egg problem. He is full of what desktop
developers should do.
Linux Desktop adoption is a set if social problems. Nowhere is it being
discussed in open-source circles what the go-to-market strategy is to
get across the Chasm.
Companies have a strategies and are martialing their resources while
Linux becomes more palatable to Mom & Pop:
Red Hat: [you know better than I]
Novell: [slow progress]
IBM: Workplace! This is brilliant because it makes Windows
irrelevant without threatening its replacement. It is a Cross-the-Chasm
strategy that acknowledges that large oganizations really don't want to
touch the desktop. I mean, the only thing more freightening than the
patch regime and the instability of Windows is the idea of disturbing
it. We need non-threatening alternatives while popular opinion moves to
accept a Linux situation.
-Sam
There are a few good points in there, which are overshadowed by
problems
not addressed. For example, how does he propose getting all of these
preferences off a proprietary file system and out of proprietary
applications? To live side-by-side, Windows needs to be installed on a
FAT file system, which is usually not the case in the NTFS world.
I appreciate that Linux desktop developers are trying to do better than
just to cater to Windows users.
People act like Windows is the be-all of computer experience. People
get used to changes because they have to. Linux desktop being
widespread will likely come about for the same reason Windows got
widespread -- businesses adopted it, users got used to it at work, and
they brought it home.
When that happens, I will be proud that we didn't produce a Windows
clone.
- Karsten
The presentation speaks for itself as to why Linux can't get across.
-Sam Hiser
I mean, is that Sanscrit?
-Sam
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