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The Day Linux is Like Windows, is the Day I Find Something Else
>компютриs getting a little riduculous with the number of “Is Linux Ready for the Desktop”, “Is Linux Ready for the Masses”, “Will This New Release of Ubuntu Make Linux Ready” articles I continue to see. What constitutes ready? Linux has been a stable operating system with all the functionality you would expect out of a modern Operating System for years. For that matter so has Mac but they still haven’t come close to touching Windows’ market share. I don’t believe we will ever see any Operating System over take Windows, in reality I think we will slowly watch these market shares level out.
Ninety percent of these articles compare Linux to Windows in order to be “ready”. Well the day Linux is like Windows is the day I find something else. Linux should keep its independence. The differences it has in comparison to Windows is part of what makes it so great, and the reason I use it as my primary Operating System. Windows is not for everyone, neither is Mac, Unix, Linux, or any other operating system for that matter. The freedom of choice is the best part about these different products. Making multiple clones of Windows with different names will just complicate things.
Linux continues to accel and innovate. Many of the complications people feel that Linux has are in the hands of third party vendors. Hardware vendors not releasing Linux native drivers, or the documentation so that Linux developers can add more support for new hardware, as well as software vendors still ignoring the Linux market. On the software front this should become less of an issue as more web services are launched to provide the services we are currently using desktop applications for. This is one of the main reasons that would keep people from migrating, that along with companies current setups and dependencies on Windows. Before any migration can take place people need the willingness to change, no one wants to feel like they have to learn how to use an Operating System again. We still have a significantly large computer user-base that are just not knowledgeable with computing at all.
Let each Operating System serve its purpose, and stop comparing them to Windows as the basis of whether or not they are “ready”. Windows comes with its complications too. To each their own. Accept the differences each has, and focus on how each can improve. I’m not looking forward to 50 million clones of Windows. If thats what I wanted I’d use Windows. Let’s instead turn our focus to interoperability between these different operating systems, standards, etc. This is where we need help the most.
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