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Linux will never work on the desktop because it is made FOR neckbeards by neckbeards. It is a community driven effort, which means the community pushes its dev

Linux will never work on the desktop because it is made FOR neckbeards by neckbeards. It is a community driven effort, which means the community pushes its development and design. Who do you see using the linux desktop? The exact type of people who design and develop it. Power users and developers. They are a stubborn bunch. Even if Unity/Gnome 3/etc were more usable desktops, the majority of users would hate it. Because something like a newbie usable desktop just doesn't fit who's designing the desktop. Something else will have to shove it into the wider market where it can be judged by those standards, not by what set of power user keyboard short cuts it supports.

fromhet 14y ago
Oh don't tell people how they feel about things! There are hordes of non-programmers (or their likes) using Ubuntu, even if they could choose Windows or Mac. Neither my SO or brother can code and they have rarely if ever been in a terminal, but are both very happy with Ubuntu.
- emperorcezar 14y ago
  I agree with you, my SO is fine with it also. I'm talking about the design process. I really like the direction that Ubuntu is going. It's being designed for the masses, but the pressure on ubuntu is from the power user crowd. I think it will go nowhere because the current linux user base will be holding it back. Gnome3 and Unity are fighting this tide also. I don't think the state of the linux desktop should be, "Copy XP and put a real shell behind it".
  - vacri 14y ago
    Ubuntu's mission statement from the start was linux for normal users. They always said that they were trying to provide a desktop for regular users, and their argument was that there are already heaps of distros out there for power users. It's not a new direction they've taken, it's just when they had the opportunity to simplify, a lot of users didn't understand what their core mission was. Besides, if you want a Power User version of Ubuntu, just use Debian.

fromhet 14y ago

Oh don't tell people how they feel about things! There are hordes of non-programmers (or their likes) using Ubuntu, even if they could choose Windows or Mac. Neither my SO or brother can code and they have rarely if ever been in a terminal, but are both very happy with Ubuntu.

emperorcezar 14y ago
I agree with you, my SO is fine with it also. I'm talking about the design process. I really like the direction that Ubuntu is going. It's being designed for the masses, but the pressure on ubuntu is from the power user crowd. I think it will go nowhere because the current linux user base will be holding it back. Gnome3 and Unity are fighting this tide also. I don't think the state of the linux desktop should be, "Copy XP and put a real shell behind it".
- vacri 14y ago
  Ubuntu's mission statement from the start was linux for normal users. They always said that they were trying to provide a desktop for regular users, and their argument was that there are already heaps of distros out there for power users. It's not a new direction they've taken, it's just when they had the opportunity to simplify, a lot of users didn't understand what their core mission was. Besides, if you want a Power User version of Ubuntu, just use Debian.