> If you want Linux to be a primary end-user OS, it needs to stop trying to approximate the experiences of other OSes, and provide an experience the others don'

> If you want Linux to be a primary end-user OS, it needs to stop trying to approximate the experiences of other OSes, and provide an experience the others don't. You say that as if they were mutually exclusive. Linux is not just one OS which has to do one thing. It's hundreds of OSs which all can do different things. If some of those want to solely offer an improved experience over other OSs, while others decide to completely diverge from any known concepts, that's no problem at all. Also consider that there's only so many concepts which will work with a desktop OS. You can build something that's completely different, but chances are that you end up with Windows 8 or Android or a media-center or Eagle Mode [0] which are great in their own right, but not exactly what most people will expect on a desktop computer. [0] http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/index.html http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/index.html