Re:Why Linux sucks (Score 1)

I think that comment is shortsighted and unfair. I also think I would be hard pressed to come up with a better example of the barrier I'm talking about.

From my personal experience - a Winx user sat in front of a Mac will generally be productive within a day. Same user in front of a Linux desktop will typically give up.

What's needed here and apparently absent from your comment is an ability to listen to the problems I raised and address them constructively. All too often what I find are comments like yours which belittle the user and serve to squelch the kind of insights that are necessary before Linux will succeed on the desktop.

This is precisely the barrier I was talking about. A glowing example in fact.

To address your first point on horror stories, and hopefully leave out the un-needed emotional heat, the point is not a numerical comparison of how many Winx horror stories there are compared with how many *nix horror stories there are. That is immaterial.

What is important is that there are any Linux horror stories and what to do about reducing that number.

I for one am not content to have Linux be "just as good" or "better than" Winx in any case by case comparison. I feel that Linux is far too powerful to settle for that.

Rather, my goal would be to have Linux serve as the basis for a near revolution in computing - one that finally makes reliable, scalable, and powerful computing capabilities accessible in a way that computing has never been. As simple as a toaster for the novice, yet as powerful as the largest super-computer ever concieved for the expert, with no large bumps in-between on the learning curve. An environment that encourages wide and constant innovation while preserving reliability and stability. If a goal must be picked, that would be mine. No FUD here. Linux is good. But, it's not good enough yet. With open eyes - let's solve that issue.