"I'm not my Grandmother. I'm very good with Linux on the server, but I've not yet been able to live with Linux on the desktop."
Jeff, I have no reason to believe you are bad with Linux. I suspect many of your Desktop issues are self inflicted. After reading a few of your past KDE complaints, it seems you demand Desktop applications to work exactly the way you envision them to work. Correct me if I am wrong but I recall long threads about KAlarm and other devilish KDE contraptions. If KDE was the only choice for Linux I would take a page out of Sokolov's book and kill myself; the Linux Desktop would be dead, not dying, dead. I am sure others have suggested this, but just in case, try Gnome. Many of your KDE apps will continue to work and now there is a Gnome 3.0. I would've figured you for a FluxBox user but anything is better than KDE, IMO. Paul I cannot argue with those statistics nor with your list of Linux uses. Call me idealistic but I still believe the general purpose of Linux, and of FOSS on some level, is its Open Source nature and community; industry use is just a byproduct, IMO. Chris... On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]>wrote: > Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: > > The primary role Linux plays is that of a FOSS OS. If you are too poor > to > > upgrade to the lastest version of CEMENT, Linux will be there. > > Although it is good that a desktop is freely available for the poor to > use if they cant afford to buy one, I beg to differ with your view of > the primary role of Linux in todays world. If you look at the > statistics as cited on wikipedia, it would seem to indicate that a > reasonable estimation of the percentage of Linux desktops in the world > are between 1 and 5 percent. I realize that wikepedia is not > necessarily a reliable resource, but they cite recourses that could be > considered reliable. I also realize that the wikpedia article may be > outdated. Personally it doesn't matter that much to me, so I'm not > going to spend the time to investigate the accuracy of those > statistics cited. Nevertheless, it seems to me that the wikipedia > article is very likely a good source to make, at least, a fairly close > estimation of the state of things. If anyone wants to show me more > reliable statistics, I would be happy to look at them, and adjust my > assumptions accordingly. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems > > > > > > We need to stop putting > > Linux in terms of industry and measuring it's success based on some > > OSX:Window$:Linux ratio. > > Idealistically that may be a good way of looking at the role of Linux > in the computer world. Nevertheless Linux has staked its claim over a > major critical territory in the computing world, and that is in the > server world. This is a territory that is coveted by the big industry, > and they would break out all their big guns to cross that front line. > Therefore I believe my statement about the primary role of Linux is > reasonably accurate, and that an important role the desktop serves in > is an environment for teckies to learn. > > The role that Linux plays as a server at this time in history is a > real role on coveted ground. The desktop role that people envision may > come in the future, and I hope it does, but it is more idealistic as > opposed to tangible. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
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