Of *Course* Linux Is Out-of-Touch With The Average User
Slashdot posted a short mention of a ZDNet columnist’s article positing reasons why Linux hasn’t tipped.
Some of his reasons are prosaic - number 1, for example is because “on the whole, users aren’t all that dissatisfied with Windows.”
Reason number 5, and of course you knew it was coming, is because “Linux is still too geeky.” Quoting the columnist:
Over the last few years there’s been a huge push to make some Linux distros easier to use, and when you look at a distro like Ubuntu, you realize that they’ve done a pretty good job. Problem is, there are some areas of the OS that are still overwhelmingly geeky (for example, updates).
And of course, there’s my personal favorites, changing the display resolution or modifying the boot order on dual-boot boxes.
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