Why should Linux aim for the desktop?
Linux is a great operating system in the back room. It is stable, low on resources, secure and fast. It is so good that most of the worlds fastest, including the fastest, computers run Linux. It is used in mobile(cell) phones, networking equipment, printers and many other embedded devices. It doesn't matter what operating system you use, as soon as you surf the internet you will be using Linux. Linux is so wide spread there is just no escaping from it. You have already been assimilated.
Yet people are not happy (when are they ever?). They wish to put Linux on the desktop of the average Joe and Jane citizen. They wish to topple the big bad microsoft juggernaut and replace the operating system which ninety percent of the computing population are used to with another which varies more in its user presentation than Lucille Ball has ditsy antics (If you know who Lucille Ball is then welcome to greybeardom .
You have probably read more blog articles on how Linux is ready for the desktop than you can shake a stick at. Yet adoption of a Linux desktop is not as fast as people wish. There is a huge inertia factor and supposed stigma which is working against desktop adoption. Yet I wonder. Why should Linux aim for the desktop?
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