Comment Re:What's still keeping me away (Score 1) 1348
Confusing distros
This is normal and the Open Source community will see it as an advantage but they doesn't see that it is a great challenge for the end user. I get lige 10 questions a day about which distro to use.
Poor documentation
Yes the documentation isn't really there. The documentation that exists is for developpers/scripters/sysadmins/.... not for the user who wants to change the name of a file he created.
Software, Software, Software
Here I can't accord you the point. This is not a distro/Linux fans/... problem, it is an enterprises problem. There isn't companies who targets the Linux market beacuase : the share isn't great and the development for the differences between the linux distros is overwhelming. Also changing the way things turn is done in a blink of the eyes without further notice.
Little support (if not openly hostile)
Here I must completely disagree. Because the help is present. Ask a question in the net and you'll find yourself with tons of responses. I've never posted a question because I had always found the responses through the older questions posted.
Ways of doing things that are confusing to a Windows user
This is also a problem from the companies. Even if a company works on the Linux part, it doesn't do it correctly because it is always on the lowest importance. Take the example of VMWare, their installer is a great piece of software, but just lacks a GUI to install.
Still too much reliance on the command line interface
Yes that's a great problem too. Nothing to add.
For me a GNU/Linux system isn't a good choice for an average user. Now the solutions ?
To get it to a better level, a new way of thinking of the OSS must be made. OSS is different from do things partly. If you want users adopt GNU/Linux, the software must be made like pros.
A better way, is a to make a consorsium that declares the minimum things in a Linux desktop (libraries, kernel version
