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I will have to respectfully disagree with the author. Linux desktop isn’t dead because big companies and VCs are chasing ROI. Linux on the desktop is dead beca
by mfer 6y ago
I will have to respectfully disagree with the author.
Linux desktop isn’t dead because big companies and VCs are chasing ROI. Linux on the desktop is dead because most current Linux desktop developers don’t want or use software the same way as the average person. So they don’t build what the average person wants. So the average person doesn’t want to use it.
VC funded companies using open source isn’t why there are so many abandoned projects. ROI isn’t the reason for issues. For example, a bunch of open source that’s dead is because people experimented and the experiment didn’t pan out. That’s normal and has long been the case. We just see it now with so much open source
- pedrocr 6y ago> Linux desktop isn’t dead because big companies and VCs are chasing ROI. Linux on the desktop is dead because most current Linux desktop developers don’t want or use software the same way as the average person. So they don’t build what the average person wants. So the average person doesn’t want to use it. That's not necessarily a failure mode though. If Linux developers are producing the desktop they want to use then that's fine. They don't owe the "average" person anything, whoever that is. (BTW, I don't think the situation is quite so dire. From experience, dropping non-technical users into a modern Ubuntu is not really all that hard. The fact that most custom software these days is web based makes that much easier)
- hodgesrm 6y agoI'm typing this on Ubuntu 18.04. The desktop is perfectly adequate for my purposes. Mac OSX drove me crazy because the designers kept adding features I didn't need and kept breaking features I depended on.