More pointless gibberish
More pointless gibberish
Posted May 22, 2005 6:34 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)In reply to: More pointless gibberish by b7j0c
Parent article: What the Linux Desktop Needs (OS Views)
> The desktop market is over.
That's really pessimistic. It sounds almost as if we shouldn't even be trying, because others have captured the market and that's the end of it. No more competition - ever. I certainly hope that isn't true.
> Anyone who wants dead-simple, it-just-works computing already uses a Mac.
I'm not sure where all this "Mac: the ultimate desktop" is coming from, but it may as well be an urban legend as far as I'm concerned. I have a Mac (or better - I purchased one for my daugther) and it's neither always dead simple nor does everyting just work. In fact, it has major dramas setting up printing to a Linux CUPS server (while running CUPS itself), programs occasionally crash, UI is not that it's cranked up to be (some design choices boggle the mind). Sure, eye candy is great, but the platform is not without faults.