Linux is great. Really, it is. I used to use it all the time as a teenager when I got into programming. But now that I’ve matured (a little) and fallen into the world of Apple, I can see that Linux on a desktop PC is not a reality.

(Via Crunch Gear.)

Ah, yes. I feel the pain.

After my last post about Linux, a commenter took me to task as most fan boys (Apple, Linux, Windows, etc.) will.

I still stand my main point, Linux will not move beyond the geek crowd and masochistic user base until they focus on usability for the average person.

Sure some distributions, carefully tuned for a specific piece of hardware will work some of the time for most people - assuming they don’t want to do more than what it ships with.

Push it do more and the can of worms opens up. Drivers hunts, kernel updates and massive black holes of wasted time unspool before you.

I do want to state, I badly want Linux to conquer the world - become ubiquitous and common.

It would be a triumph of technology, freedom and innovation.

But the disparate nature of its evolution, combined by a blindness to usability by average consumers, hinder its progress.