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11-Dec10

At your disposal is a fuckzillion distros (and counting).
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At your disposal is a fuckzillion distros (and counting).

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6:45 pm, by sreeyesh
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18-Dec10


This is where Linux fails. Miserably. Linux is about freedom. A different kind of freedom. It’s freedom to choose to use any one of seven text editors to perform the same task. It’s the freedom to choose any one of several ridiculously complicated Window Managers. It’s the freedom to choose any one of two or three IDEs. It’s the freedom to install lots of perpetually unused servers.

Linux is about freedom for the technocrat with the open-source gene. It’s about freedom for the people that like the complexity Linux offers.

Arve Bersvendsen, ranting in an old blog post Why Linux has failed, and why Linux will fail again, on desktop Linux failure, and the ostentatious kind of freedom that only l33t g33ks want. The l33t g33ks don’t care about the average Joe. Most of them would actually think that the average Joe doesn’t deserve a computer, than thinking that “Hey, we should probably simplify it for him.”

The geeks just don’t get it. And they probably never will.

11:05 pm, by sreeyesh
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tagged: Linux, FAIL, FUCK FOSS,