[Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..

[Andrew Ayre]

It definitely won't happen if everyone had a defeatist attitude.

Not sure what you mean by "the game's over" - don't you think the 
desktop market is big enough for more than two players? Do you think 
that Apple would continue to develop their OS if they didn't have 
competition?

Andy

Bowie J. Poag wrote:
> 
> Well, it's been two weeks now since I gave up my Linux desktop in favor 
> of an Darwin/x86 OS X "Hackintosh" desktop.
> 
> I'm not looking back.
> 
> I've got some sobering news for you guys... I really think we're 
> entering a post-Linux sort of era, if not already there.. Having enjoyed 
> 2 weeks of a consistent, elegant, functional, stable, efficient Unix 
> desktop, there's really nothing attractive left to draw me back to Linux 
> as a day-to-day environment. I'm sure Linux will always occupy a strong 
> position server-wise, but as a desktop environment, the game's over.  
> Even after 10 years going, the Linux community has failed to deliver a 
> desktop with the attributes I listed above..That's about has frank and 
> as honest as I can be with it.
> 
> Call me smug, but the thing I've always warned and yapped incessantly 
> about is now the proverbial writing on the wall. If the primary 
> development focus of a desktop project is to do nothing more than try 
> and mimic an existing design, you'll resign yourself to perpetual 2nd 
> place flea market knock-off status. Both KDE and GNOME are absolutely 
> consumed with this approach, and it's only a matter of time before the 
> end user realizes both projects have only succeeded at perpetually 
> failing to deliver. If you're a hobbyist, that's fine, enjoy it.. But as 
> a mainstream desktop, when it comes to Linux it just ain't gonna happen, 
> i'm afraid.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bowie


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Andy
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