There was an article someplace a few months ago in which the fellow advocated that "Linux" had basically gone beyond the "down in the fourth deck" guts of the distro, such as the merits of BSD or the merits of Debian, or the merits of Ubuntu, or the merits of Slackware or the merits of "apt-get", or the merits of "YUM" because....
All of "that stuff" basically now works.
And that what was going to seperate out "nixs" in the future is the desktop/appearance/feel/interface....whatever one wants to call it.
I fiddle with different distros and one of them is Mint/Cinnamon.
It has as "default" a "few" fancy things like different kinds of collapsing windows, etc.
But "not much" it is basically the old Gnome desktop with a "modicum" of fancy effects .....OUT OF THE BOX.
Now, yes, one can tweak it.
But.... it did occur to me that maybe the guy is correct. Maybe "Linux" really has arrived at the state where, for most folks, if they really want to spend the time to install/uninstall and search through the myriad distros that Linux is now at a state of being able to offer a myriad of "out of the box" distros that really do meet the "needs" of the "average user".
This as opposed to "tweaking" the distro....maybe all the MASSIVE tweakage possibilities that have been developed for Linux are now for the "real gear head"....
any thoughts on this?
woodsmoke
All of "that stuff" basically now works.
And that what was going to seperate out "nixs" in the future is the desktop/appearance/feel/interface....whatever one wants to call it.
I fiddle with different distros and one of them is Mint/Cinnamon.
It has as "default" a "few" fancy things like different kinds of collapsing windows, etc.
But "not much" it is basically the old Gnome desktop with a "modicum" of fancy effects .....OUT OF THE BOX.
Now, yes, one can tweak it.
But.... it did occur to me that maybe the guy is correct. Maybe "Linux" really has arrived at the state where, for most folks, if they really want to spend the time to install/uninstall and search through the myriad distros that Linux is now at a state of being able to offer a myriad of "out of the box" distros that really do meet the "needs" of the "average user".
This as opposed to "tweaking" the distro....maybe all the MASSIVE tweakage possibilities that have been developed for Linux are now for the "real gear head"....
any thoughts on this?
woodsmoke
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