This is also quoted in a Joel Spolsky's article:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
I love the 'Raymond Chen Camp's way of looking at things. xx
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
I love the 'Raymond Chen Camp's way of looking at things. xx
If they want desktop Linux to happen, they need to stop chasing eyecandy and stabilize the plumbing behavior, no matter how much that thought offends their developer pride.
Also, I think bigger challenges to desktop Linux are the degree of configurability, drivers (maybe that's better), and the fact that the GUI is never a first-class method of using the app but instead a hastily-written wrapper on top of a command line tool.