IraqiGeek wrote: > You want Linux to really break into mainstream computing, get the majority > of distribution publishers/makers to agree on a single main standard Linux > framework where there is a single and unique standard for every task that > each and everyone of those publishers will adapt. Let the decision making > burden be on the developers of the distro, not on the average end user who > only cares to push the power button, wait a miniute or so, and then be able > to check their email and browse the net without giving a rats ass as to how > any of that is happening. Then, and only then, Linux will start to be > adopted by the masses.
Yes. One of the big mantras of Linux is choice. People are used to things that have user interfaces as difficult as a toaster. If a computer doesn't work as easily a toaster, it's confusing. Windows is more of a toaster. Linux, espousing choice, neccessarily cannot be a toaster. If you remove the choice of window managers, filesystems, etc., Linux ceases to be what it is today. I'd rather have a computer than a toaster, so I choose Linux. If the distros did what you say, I think very few of us would stick with it. I know I wouldn't. Another thing you miss, which is huge, is marketing. I had a very intelligent boss who always bought Intel products because they, in his mind, "worked better with Windows." That's the power of marketing. Microsoft does it better than anybody in the OS world. They make it sound as if you have only one choice, and that's Windows. And people believe it partially because they're not interested in learning differently. There's also the perception of value in a price. If it costs more, it's worth more, right? That's what business classes teach you. In summary... Linux: Choice Free Difficult Windows: No choice Expensive Easy Chad Martin ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
