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Ingo Molnár

• peter_d_sherman 6y ago
  >"Quotes On the question, why the Linux desktop has not been adopted by the mainstream users yet: The basic failure of the free Linux desktop is that it's, perversely, not free enough ... Desktop Linux distributions are trying to "own" 20 thousand application packages consisting of over a BILLION LINES OF CODE and have created parallel, mostly closed ecosystems around them ... The Linux package management method system works reasonably well in the enterprise (which is a hierarchical, centrally planned organization in most cases), but desktop Linux on the other hand stopped scaling 10 years ago, at the 1000 packages limit ..." PDS: An absolutely astute, perfect, exact, "dead-on-the-money" observation -- if you ask my opinion...