Old Arguments May Cost Linux the Desktop 591
itwbennett writes "The old Linux arguments that pit one tool against another — Evolution vs. Thunderbird, LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice, and GNOME3 vs. Unity vs. KDE vs. everything else — may cost Linux its shot at the desktop, opines blogger Brian Proffitt. 'We can compare LibreOffice to OpenOffice.org to Office till the cows come home,' says Proffitt. 'But what happens when Google Docs gets truly robust enough for business and high-end document production? Or Prezi gets enough mindshare to start an upwards trajectory of user numbers?' It should be the case that increasing reliance on cloud software will make it easier for businesses to choose Linux, but for that to happen, Linux communities need to stop fighting the old fights, says Proffitt."
LInux kills the Linux Desktop (Score:1, Informative)
last night I visited mod archive, and wanted to use its web player, which uses java and I didnt have it installed
Firefox pops up "you need a plug in" do its little search thing cant find shit, goto java's site there is source and RPM but no deb and I really dont feel like compiling software to listen to chiptunes
BUT thank god it was in the software manager thingie! fired it up let it install, restarted firefox "you need a plug in"
so now its a half hour later and I am digging around in a fucking ubuntu forum trying to figure out the magical cryptic command to get fucking java working in a browser, I finally found
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
restarted firefox and OMG it works but now I have to go to bed. WTF, you seriously want people like my parents using this garbage as a mainstream OS? I don't even want to deal with it anymore, cause every single little nitpicky thing turns into a pain in the ass, and there are a trillion variations so it never seems to ever be "fixed" it just moves around distros
Re:Linux = Servers (Score:4, Informative)
Linux == servers
Linux == desktops
Linux == webcams
Linux == TVs
Linux == Blu-Ray players
Linux == phones
Linux == anywhere that people want a free, secure OS