Comments on: Linux Will Regain Lost Market Share, Thanks to Moblin http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7559/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jrickard http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7559/#comment-7106 jrickard Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7559/#comment-7106 <p>I gave up Linux for lent and havent\' gone back. I use a Mac OS X now and I\'m a pretty happy guy.</p> <p>Each new release of Ubuntu would break, the sound card, the video card, and the wireless keyboard. Four years, they never got it right once in a row. Fedora? Same problem.</p> <p>These are kids with compilers with some sort of religious/spiritual problem about operating systems. It never works with the hardware (any hardware) and it is always somehow the hardware\'s fault.</p> <p>Linux has been \"coming\" for a very long time. It\'ll never get there with that central tenet to \"the religion.\" I\'m not drinking the koolaid anymore.</p> <p>Jack Rickard </p> I gave up Linux for lent and havent\’ gone back. I use a Mac OS X now and I\’m a pretty happy guy.

Each new release of Ubuntu would break, the sound card, the video card, and the wireless keyboard. Four years, they never got it right once in a row. Fedora? Same problem.

These are kids with compilers with some sort of religious/spiritual problem about operating systems. It never works with the hardware (any hardware) and it is always somehow the hardware\’s fault.

Linux has been \”coming\” for a very long time. It\’ll never get there with that central tenet to \”the religion.\” I\’m not drinking the koolaid anymore.

Jack Rickard

]]> By: mnemonic http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7559/#comment-7107 mnemonic Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7559/#comment-7107 <p>I think you can\'t compare Mac OS X to Netbook with Moblin.</p> <p>It\'s targeted at different market.</p> <p>Unless if Apple cuts their price or releasing a lower quality hardware with a lower quality software, which is unlikely. </p> I think you can\’t compare Mac OS X to Netbook with Moblin.

It\’s targeted at different market.

Unless if Apple cuts their price or releasing a lower quality hardware with a lower quality software, which is unlikely.

]]> By: jsilve1 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7559/#comment-7108 jsilve1 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7559/#comment-7108 <p>Jricktard hasn\'t used any of my computers I guess. Ubuntu, except for a stumble in 2008.04 release, has always gotten better, and worked with more stuff, more easily, for all the machines I\'ve thrown it at.</p> <p>However, the core of this article smells of BS. Moblin is irellevant to the Linux market share, IMO. Netbooks have moved to Windows for the same reasons everything else in the PC market is on Windows. Not necessarily good reasons. Anyone remember Betamax?</p> <p>Anyway, Moblin may be awesome enough to suck your dick but it won\'t make a dent in market share until some fundamental things change about how OSes end up on PCs. </p> Jricktard hasn\’t used any of my computers I guess. Ubuntu, except for a stumble in 2008.04 release, has always gotten better, and worked with more stuff, more easily, for all the machines I\’ve thrown it at.

However, the core of this article smells of BS. Moblin is irellevant to the Linux market share, IMO. Netbooks have moved to Windows for the same reasons everything else in the PC market is on Windows. Not necessarily good reasons. Anyone remember Betamax?

Anyway, Moblin may be awesome enough to suck your dick but it won\’t make a dent in market share until some fundamental things change about how OSes end up on PCs.

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