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From the article: > Of course what happened here was that Steve Jobs returned to Apple and we suddenly had MacOSX come onto the scene taking at least some air
by alphadevx 9y ago
From the article:
> Of course what happened here was that Steve Jobs returned to Apple and we suddenly had MacOSX come onto the scene taking at least some air out of the Linux Desktop space.
I really agree with that: if every engineer I know who uses a Mac "because Bash" would use Linux instead, we would have arrived at a decent Linux desktop market-share by now. Kudos Apple.
In saying that, as a desktop Linux user I really don't mind being part of a small user community. I would never switch to MacOSX as it is not (fully) open source, and Windows is nice for running Steam for gaming.
- lj3 9y ago> Of course what happened here was that Steve Jobs returned to Apple and we suddenly had MacOSX come onto the scene taking at least some air out of the Linux Desktop space. That might have been the case 10 years ago, but it isn't now. Desktop OS dissatisfaction is at an all time high in both the Windows and Apple camps, among both users and developers. If a linux distro got its act together it could steal the show. But, to do that would require an overhaul to linux similar to what Next did to create NextStep.
- alphadevx 9y agoGood point, and I agree there is room for a disruption, as right now it's all pretty bland with regards to innovation in the desktop space.