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I completely agree with you on this. "Linux culture" has an attitude problem that WILL prevent it from overtaking Windows if things don't change. Unfortunately,

I completely agree with you on this. "Linux culture" has an attitude problem that WILL prevent it from overtaking Windows if things don't change. Unfortunately, calling out this particular problem (especially among a Linux-ey community) tends to attract the worst of that attitude problem attacking those who see the problem. > Open source drivers: poor performance, very stable, likely to not crash. Actually, in my experience the open-source drivers for all my NVIDIA GPUs has been abysmally unstable. I couldn't even boot or install Ubuntu with the graphical interface, because nouveau kept freezing. You could blame my uncommon but perfectly valid SLI GTX 580 setup for confusing the open source drivers, but the end result remains: the open-source drivers are inferior in every way except perhaps for the "open source" part (which is kind of meaningless if they don't work).

shmerl 12y ago
SLI is uncommon indeed, and I wouldn't expect it to work well with open drivers, if it often doesn't even work well with closed ones.
anon4 12y ago
The fear, I feel, is in making Linux follow Windows's user experience, rather than doing its own thing. Meaning, any call for "make it more user-friendly" is heard like "give me windows". It might make sense to rally behind Ubuntu as a user-friendly distro and push that, only mentioning Linux the way "MacOS X is built on Darwin". Another big problem is packaging for third-party software. Personally I would love to see a system where software isn't distributed as final binaries, but pre-built object files, together with a few very light shim source-files that then get built and linked on my machine, and rebuilt and relinked when the libs they depend on get updated.