Handle With Linux

experience vs. act

The passive energy in you may... Never mind that bit.

I use machines to create and process. As a creative person, a machine that can be modified for various tasks using simple syntax is very appealing. Oh whats this? Look! It's a personal computer! Wow! Amazing!

I'm not going to be making a web app or poster or song on a phone any time soon. Yes, the reason I use a traditional desktop for making music is because I prefer it to dedicated devices such as the ground breaking and entirely revolutionary synthesizer or hard disk recorder with tiny screens and layers of menus and artificial limitations. :P OK, I do use hardware synths and trackers sometimes - but not alone and not nearly as much as a *trackball*, keyboard, and midi control devices. So perhaps having seen this shift happen in opposite direction, I say we will be using a mixture in the future. When I started programming I was always happy that I could use the one box for so many things. If you really want to believe the marketing hype, then yes, go an buy the latest gadget that doubles as an automatic nose picker.

Yawn...

Ever tried to compute standing up? It doesn't work very well. Therefor, we sit to compute, and at a desk since we need stuff at hand. One of them will be a PC for the forseeable future. We need large screens and keyboards for now. If you can get PCs to read our minds or interpret our speech with better accuracy, perhaps the keyboard could go. Then we need a pointer. The keyboard can do it but the trackball was tried and found wanting. That leaves pretty well the interface we are used to: rectangular regions on the screen for interacting with specific processes. Perhaps icons can do different things soon, but the desktop stays.

M$ will die without the desktop going away. To avoid death, M$ is diversifying like crazy but they cannot gain monopoly anywhere like they had on the desktop. Death for M$ means earning money the old-fashioned way, earning it. They are quite welcome to earn money, but they have worn out their welcome leveraging the monopoly on the desktop. That ends this year. Vista and 7 will continue to flop with business and many will turn to GNU/Linux or MacOS at home and office. M$ will become just another company scrambling to make a living in a few years. Now, they are paying people to use XP on netbooks. That is not a sustainable business model and fraught with anti-trust snags. If M$ wastes any more energy in messing with the competition (e.g. TomTom) they will destroy themselves just as SCO did. It will just take a bit longer because of the mass of the carcass.

Desktop are here to stay.

Now as for the corporate World desktop os will play a big part but also how and what device we use outside the office to do are work will also play a big part on how are work computers sync with are devices.
Look at the iPhone for once they want to compete with the rim phones only problem they weren't business friendly so the last few OS iPhone made was to conquer that problem and address other issues that the phone lacked.

But with blackberrys and the iphone still need to be sync to a desktop from time to time. Some Linux Distros have realize this and started to take time into netbook friendly OS and so on.

Look at the Moblin project so dont say Linux doesn't have a chance to rule. Xubuntu is made for old notebooks also if you wanted could run it on a netbook.

But for the many out there Linux has been installed on many many Dell Mini 9 out there with Ubuntu.

Vista cant run on a netbook unless you have at less 2 gb and thats the max ram off a dell mini 9 and Acer Aspire One max out at 1.5gb.

I know Dell will equip theres with Windows XP nice OS but there will no longer be support for it. Linux on the other hand one you can control the OS you it doesnt control you. With the many many guru's out there you will always have support.

The reason linux has been so popular the last few years is because of vista.
People wanted another choice since it was either go back to Windows XP or find another OS. MAC is out of the question for the average PC owner.
Yes theres the Hackintosh since MAC has a x86 version.

But the projects out there one could work maybe you tried them all and none of them work. But the average user one doesnt have the time nor the know how to get it to run. I have answer my share of questions for noobs.

Or you can steer away throw you PC out and buy a overpriced MAC and have a true MAC.(I am not here to flame the MAC I own two MAC BookPros and they still beat like a champ) vs the 25 PC Laptops I have own and took a crap.

Hardware failure but the Linux OS and UNIX OS always made my hardware run better then in Windows. I actually since the vista era always get my laptop shipped to me with out a OS its better that way.

Im proud to say that Im happy with Ubuntu,SuSe and FreeBSD had them before windows Vista And Xp actually. I was search for something else even more after MS-DOS and command line went out the door.

And found it in Linux and UNIX, I know people including me that can run around a command line in Linux and Unix then put them in a GUI and there as slow as a 84 year old grandmother.

Command Line is what sold me on Linux and UNIX. But hey what do I know man I am not here to flame you either cause your right in a way everybody wants things smaller and smaller. Most of the task the average user needs a computer for they can get out of a phone now.

And since this world got themselves all bunch up in speed no one has the time to carry a big bulky laptop around when there phone can pretty much give them what they want when they want as long as there phone has reception.

So the desktop will be changed but remember this it will be around forever. How Linux takes all this to there advantage it what will bring them into the lime light.

"if you draw a line"

I get your point, but still... This embodies the fallacy of assuming linearity. Natural and economic and technical processes tend to be exponential, because they involve positive feedback.

Well, lots of bold statements but not a lot of backup.

I, in ten years time, will probably still be writing policy papers and dealing with complex financial spreadsheets. I won't be doing this using my phone or my fridge. I'll probably use a laptop more-or-less as I do now.

For most applications a screen will remain more practical than projection, because I usually don't have a blank wall or a dark-ish room.

The thrust of this article has nothing particular to do with Linux (as per the headline) and the par2 statement about Microsoft disappearing is not backed up in any way.

Please try again. There are important points to be made about devices and what they will run, but this is nonsense.