Re:It's the applications, stupid! (Score 1)

I don't understand why people is always trying to find a single rootcause to a problem with multiple rootcauses, I mean, the fact that Linux is free could potentially be part of the problem, and apps can also add a lot of headaches to a Linux newbie, but apart from those and many others mentioned by many people, you have the problem of having too many Linux flavors. Let me give you and example, say I want to test Linux, and I make the mistake of asking here at /. which version shold I use for my desktop... do you have an idea of how many different responses would I get? Let me give you a clue, last time I asked (on a different site) I got 14 different flavors... there is NO WAY I can install 14 different versions of Linux just to determine if it is ready or not, just by looking at the amount of distributions I can tell you it isn't.