Comments on: Linux distributions, episode one http://blog.seanwhitton.com/2008/01/linux-distributions-episode-one.html The unexamined life is not worth living ~ Socrates Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:01:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ruairidh http://blog.seanwhitton.com/2008/01/linux-distributions-episode-one.html/comment-page-1#comment-479 Ruairidh Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:29:00 +0000 http://newblog.seanwhitton.com/2008/01/linux-distributions-episode-one.html#comment-479 @Isabell<br/><br/>A lot of people don't like things they're not used to. Linux is a scary new operating system that gives (just about) complete freedom over the system.<br/><br/>For tech-monkeys that is ideal, but for the average user they don't want or need that kind of control. They want a pretty OS that will warn them if something is wrong and make life reasonably simple for them.<br/><br/>Going Sean's view of Linux being pretty socialist then what I've just said fits perfectly with Marxist ideology:<br/><br/><i>"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!"</i><br/><br/>-Ruairidh @Isabell

A lot of people don’t like things they’re not used to. Linux is a scary new operating system that gives (just about) complete freedom over the system.

For tech-monkeys that is ideal, but for the average user they don’t want or need that kind of control. They want a pretty OS that will warn them if something is wrong and make life reasonably simple for them.

Going Sean’s view of Linux being pretty socialist then what I’ve just said fits perfectly with Marxist ideology:

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”

-Ruairidh

]]> By: Isabell http://blog.seanwhitton.com/2008/01/linux-distributions-episode-one.html/comment-page-1#comment-478 Isabell Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:46:00 +0000 http://newblog.seanwhitton.com/2008/01/linux-distributions-episode-one.html#comment-478 <i>Since my family have converted completely to Linux at my father's house on the main computer, we have been using Ubuntu with great success.</i><br/>^^ Quoted from your blog ^^<br/><br/>You're lucky! My parents won't let me install Ubuntu, they don't see the point of it and think that 'my computer is built for Windows and should stay that way.' I could just use Ubuntu from the LiveCD, but what would be the point in that! It's really annoying, actually, that they won't let me. They won't even let me show them what it is/looks like/does! Since my family have converted completely to Linux at my father’s house on the main computer, we have been using Ubuntu with great success.
^^ Quoted from your blog ^^

You’re lucky! My parents won’t let me install Ubuntu, they don’t see the point of it and think that ‘my computer is built for Windows and should stay that way.’ I could just use Ubuntu from the LiveCD, but what would be the point in that! It’s really annoying, actually, that they won’t let me. They won’t even let me show them what it is/looks like/does!

]]> By: kozmcrae http://blog.seanwhitton.com/2008/01/linux-distributions-episode-one.html/comment-page-1#comment-473 kozmcrae Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:28:00 +0000 http://newblog.seanwhitton.com/2008/01/linux-distributions-episode-one.html#comment-473 I believe Ubuntu will be out front when Microsoft crumbles into a pile of broken chairs. But not because it's that much better than the other "top" distributions. If all the other distributions would disappear, Microsoft would crush or buy Canonical. It's not a running race, it's a pyramid with Ubuntu on top despite the fact that it came late in the game. When all is said and done and Steve Ballmer is staring blankly into space, drooling on himself in a "Home" somewhere, the IT world will not devolve into a monoculture again with Ubuntu being the culture. There will be plenty of variety thanks to the Open Source model. I believe Ubuntu will be out front when Microsoft crumbles into a pile of broken chairs. But not because it’s that much better than the other “top” distributions. If all the other distributions would disappear, Microsoft would crush or buy Canonical. It’s not a running race, it’s a pyramid with Ubuntu on top despite the fact that it came late in the game. When all is said and done and Steve Ballmer is staring blankly into space, drooling on himself in a “Home” somewhere, the IT world will not devolve into a monoculture again with Ubuntu being the culture. There will be plenty of variety thanks to the Open Source model.

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