Desktop Linux

[swhiser]

swhiser wrote:

> swhiser wrote:
>
>> Karsten Wade wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 20:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Aza dotzler presentation on requirements for Desktop Linux is a 
>>>> relevant article for what is appealing to the target audience
>>>>
>>>> http://piercedotzler.com/asa/linux%20%96%20in%20search%20of%20the%20desktop.pdf 
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Owch, painful to read presentation.  Guess my desktop isn't ready for
>>> it.
>>>
>>> This is the usual chicken-egg problem.  He is full of what desktop
>>> developers should do.
>>

Linux Desktop adoption is a set if social problems.  Nowhere is it being 
discussed in open-source circles what the go-to-market strategy is to 
get across the Chasm.

Companies have a strategies and are martialing their resources while 
Linux becomes more palatable to Mom & Pop:

Red Hat:   [you know better than I]
Novell:      [slow progress] 
IBM:       Workplace!  This is brilliant because it makes Windows 
irrelevant without threatening its replacement.  It is a Cross-the-Chasm 
strategy that acknowledges that large oganizations really don't want to 
touch the desktop.  I mean, the only thing more freightening than the 
patch regime and the instability of Windows is the idea of disturbing 
it.  We need non-threatening alternatives while popular opinion moves to 
accept a Linux situation.

-Sam


>>>
>>> There are a few good points in there, which are overshadowed by 
>>> problems
>>> not addressed.  For example, how does he propose getting all of these
>>> preferences off a proprietary file system and out of proprietary
>>> applications?  To live side-by-side, Windows needs to be installed on a
>>> FAT file system, which is usually not the case in the NTFS world.
>>>
>>> I appreciate that Linux desktop developers are trying to do better than
>>> just to cater to Windows users.
>>>
>>> People act like Windows is the be-all of computer experience.  People
>>> get used to changes because they have to.  Linux desktop being
>>> widespread will likely come about for the same reason Windows got
>>> widespread -- businesses adopted it, users got used to it at work, and
>>> they brought it home.
>>>
>>> When that happens, I will be proud that we didn't produce a Windows
>>> clone.
>>>
>>> - Karsten
>>>  
>>>
>>
>> The presentation speaks for itself as to why Linux can't get across.
>> -Sam Hiser
>
>
>
> I mean, is that Sanscrit?
> -Sam
>
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