2009: Year of the Linux Delusion
An article has come out claiming (yet again) that 2009 will be the year of Linux, and bases this prediction on the fact that low power ARM processors will be in netbooks which won’t have enough power to run Windows, but then says these new netbooks will be geared to “web only” applications which suits Linux perfectly. And, oh yeah, Palm might save Linux, too.
In a year that saw Linux netbooks appear, and fail to excite consumers, thus handing Microsoft victory in the netbook operating system space, yet another pundit has come out claiming 2009 will be a revolutionary year for Linux.
The article, called “2009: Year Of The Linux Revolution”, from Fast Company’s Chris Dannen, says that netbooks running ARM processors will need a lightweight and pretty version of Linux, written by Canonical, to woo users.
Of course, just because Canonical has done a deal with ARM to write such a version of Linux doesn’t mean it exists yet, with existing Linux distributions doing their best to look like Windows, and do everything that Windows can do.
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2002
My very own year of desktop Linux was 2002.
I really don't care if it will ever be massively adopted or not. It works for me and that's all that matters.
Good Applications after Good OS
Peoples use applications on their desktops, on top of an OS.
Let suppose a new user has the courage to switch to a the new OS and that OS detect most of the hardware correctly.
After switching to a new OS (Linux, Mac, any Bsd etc), users will search for a given application, let say a word processor/spreadsheet/browser/image retouching editor /... and that application can be decisive to continuous usage of that OS.
They will need to re-learn usage of new users interface and particular behavior of that application. The documents created with the applications from old OS must imported correctly in the new App/OS.
And also niche applications (at leas decent) sound editing, mp3 compressors, web design, technical drawing.
*Everything* menu based, No C.L.I. and complicated parameters (to scary for average windoze user !) to convert any file or to have any job done.
Installation procedures, hardware detection and drivers are not the main problem anymore for the new Linux distributions. The majority already are user friendly.