19th October Comments

Teeth-Gnashing and Tongue-Lashing Over Desktop Linux Foot-Shooting

Posted on October 19th, 2009 at 7:21 am

 

Lack of vendor support, lack of marketing, too much “bad techie attitude,” too much infighting and not enough developer cooperation are “Five ways the Linux desktop shoots itself in the foot,” contends Computerworld’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. “Every time I’ve ever posted on ubuntu’s forum, dive been treated very nicely,” protested Anonymous in the Computerworld comments. “Really?” shot back another Anonymous writer. “Because I’ve seen ‘RTFM NOOB’ more times than I care to count.”

Humm is anyone seeing a pattern here yet? Yes Linux is good and yes some folks have been playing with it longer than others, however some how the teaching aspect of some leave a lot to be desired, trust me I have been around long enough to have seen this type of problem. Baldy

Teeth-Gnashing and Tongue-Lashing Over Desktop Linux Foot-Shooting

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