--On Monday, November 16, 2009 01:12:57 PM -0500 Joe Auty
<joe@netmusician.org> wrote:
> if Ubuntu is supposed to be the most user friendly of the bunch, this
> does not bode well.
>From my personal experience with other Linux users, the most popular
distributions are hardly the most user-friendly and stable. Ubuntu gets
a lot of attention, but I'm not sure it is because of some innate
improvement that it makes to the community in terms of technical
stability or Windows -> Linux User Friendliness.
Ubuntu managed to get a big community with good marketing, and it isn't
a shabby system. However, it's not the most stable by a long shot,
because a thriving active community often moves forward in the name of
progress at rapid rates if stability is not one of their primary goals
above new features.
Fedora Core is another example of a very popular Linux distribution that
is very unstable. Why is it popular? Well, it just is, and the community
surrounding it causes some of that, I would guess.
I am just trying to point out that the most popular system in Linux land
are usually not the most stable.
As for user-fiendliness, until the attitude and metric of
user-fiendliness switches from "deos it work like Windows" to something
else, there will always be this issue. This is changing, I think.
We can argue for things "Just Working" all day long, but the truth
is,many users will give that up in exchange for other things, and many
times there are technical walls from hardware vendors that create these
problems.
Aaron W. Hsu
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