Comments by "Immudzen" (@Immudzen) on "What Desktop Linux Needs To Succeed In The Mainstream" video.

I don't see a viable path towards Linux on the desktop right now. There was a time where people could go to the store and buy Redhat, Mandrake, Suse etc. but none of those are sold in stores anymore. The problem I see is this idea of eating your own dogfood for software development. Most of the developers are advanced and use more advanced distros and the work is just not put into making a good solid desktop for newbies. Linux works great on servers but the people that develop it for servers also use it for servers. Even pointing out that zipping a file up should give you some kind of feedback beyond a weird file extension gets quite a lot of hate. Linux does not need to work like Windows but it does need a more unified way of working. If you want desktop ideas that are VERY different and resulted in a nice to work with desktop maybe look for inspiration from OS/2. In the end most if the issues come down to the same small polishing pieces missing. There is a general lack of feedback on what the system is doing. Also the core OS really should be separated from all the other packages. There really should be no way that installing a user package could cause the removal of core OS components.
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