Linux Desktop Innovation
June 22nd, 2009 by ComputerBob
After using Windows for about a decade, I got sick and tired of having to try to patch its countless security vulnerabilities; its overall instability and unreliability; and the way that Microsoft steps all over the rights of Windows users, so I went looking for something to take its place.
It took me awhile, but I eventually discovered free-and-open-source Linux and some of its many advantages over Windows.
Back then, I tried but was disappointed by several different Linux distros that were popular at the time, including one that I paid for.
So I kept using Windows, while I waited for both my PC knowledge and skills, and Linux’s ease of installation and configuration to mature.
Regular readers of this Journal know that Linux and I finally reached that point in July of 2006, when I began using Linux full-time instead of Windows.
Since then, Linux has gotten even easier to install, configure and use.
And in the past few years, Linux developers have added many new bells and whistles that have enticed many more former Windows users to convert to various LInux distros.
But the direction that Linux is going leads some people to wonder Does The Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much?
Of course, Slashdot’s readers have a lot of answers to that question.
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