The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop, Part II

Post by regularfry » Sun, Jun 19, 2011, 4:36 PM UTC

aristidb wrote: post #80

jarin wrote: post #48

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Android isn't successful because of Linux, it's successful in spite of Linux. Google chose Linux as a base on which to build what is essentially a new operating system (much like Apple chose BSD to build iOS on). This is what a cellphone looks like when it's developed entirely by the open source community: http://www.openmoko.com/

Android certainly is successful _because_ of Linux (the kernel), because that let Google concentrate on the upper layers, being able to use a mostly finished kernel.

Post by pandeiro » Wed, Jun 22, 2011, 12:23 PM UTC

wonnage wrote: post #79

pandeiro wrote: post #41

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Give up or don't give up, but agonizing about it accomplishes nothing. 6 months ago I received a new laptop that "just didn't work on Linux." I did a lot of research, tried different distros, hacked on it a lot, and now it is a dream to use, gets excellent battery life, and even suspend/resume work beautifully. Hackers don't agonize over this kind of shit, they get to work. If you don't want to invest the time, your…

Well, you also have the bias of wasting several weeks of your life trying to set up a laptop. Yeah, I said waste. Most people will counter by saying "but I learned linux!" No, you didn't, you learned to futz around with a bunch of conf files. I remember trying to make Pulseaudio work with my USB soundcard. Several hours of dicking about with asoundrc later and I a. still had a nonfunctional sound card b. still don't…