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Originally Posted by DaWei
It's limited popularity is because of the fairly large number of geeks of somewhat limited competence, those who have never contemplated (or understood) the requirements of slickness, prime utility, and top-notch programming.
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I think this relates back to the python thread someone started the other day. The concept of overall efficiency in the real world as opposed to 'percieved efficency' by taking 3 days to shave off 3 seconds from execution time. (I lurk, quite a bit around these parts, even if I don't post often)
People who have the skillset and the desire to create a distro, are rarely in touch with the average computer user (or an average developer for that matter) to know what they truly want from their computer. This format has probablly led to some of the bigger innovations, however it also creates some major problems. Namely conformity as was mentioned.
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Originally Posted by King
Linux isn’t for your next door neighbour or the local piano teacher if they aren’t willing to learn new things. There are OS’s already out there for these people, so if Linux is trying to do things different, leave it alone and don’t try and make it like these other OS’s cause it’s not.
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Linux doesn't need to be for your next door neighbor to be popular and useable. What it needs is a standardized API, so that a programmer can reliably write a program that works across many flavors of *nix, without a complicated setup procedure. Right now it either requires sufficient effort from the Distro's point of view, or sufficient effort from the programmers point of view. A standard set of 'install' functions and a standard set of 'operating' functions is swiftly becoing a requirement to maintain the feasability of linux. requireing work-arounds at the install, and operations levels isn't ideal in anyone's book.
-MBirchmeier