The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop
I remember the first time I used Linux. A friend of mine installed Fedora 2 on my personal computer and there was a glitch in GRUB that prevented me from booting in Windows. My ethernet card wasn’t supported so I was left without Internet. I asked my friend can I at least watch a few movies while he brought me a patched version of the buggy GRUB. He told me - you need to compile MPlayer from sources with several optimization, you need windows video codecs, etc. At the time this excited me a lot - adventure, excitement. I learned A LOT by using Linux non-stop for so long time. But at some point you stop learning exciting things and are just stuck with tedious things you have to keep doing over and over again. And as I already mentioned - I don’t want my time wasted, I want to get the job done with minimum hassle.
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Devoted user and contributor leaves Linux behind and explains his reasons. Using Linux on the desktop is fine as long as it's a goal in itself. If you use your computer as a tool and actually want to do something useful with, then probably you won't have enough time and patience to struggle with it.
