What SHOULD Linux be?
Recently I was involved with a conversation on a Linux mailing list regarding the current state of the operating system. Outside of all the gladhanding and back patting (well deserved I must say), one of the issues that was brought up was emulation. Not like WINE (and I know, Wine Is Not an Emulator), but in the sense of whether or not Linux should emulate Windows or Mac. Because it is so simple to configure the Linux desktop to look at behave like either Windows or OS X there are many that espouse doing so.
I had to step in and ask the question I had hoped was on everyone’s mind.
Why?
When one decides to emulate either Windows or OS X that assumes that either choice is doing it right and that there is really no other right way to do things. That could not be farther from the truth. If you think about it long enough you will find a litany of features and functions that are dead on in both Windows and OS X. This also holds true for Linux.
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