The Year of Linux on the Desktop - Part 3: It just (doesn't) work
Linux “The Year of Linux on the Desktop”Nobody buys a computer; they buy into an ecosystem.
This has been true for (basically) forever. A computer has only ever been as useful as the software you could run on it, and as only a small fraction of the people who have ever owned computers can program them, this mostly means the software you can buy (or otherwise obtain) for it.1
Computer ecosystems have always evolved. Defender of the Crown and Delux Paint were excellent reasons to buy into the Amiga ecosystem, but WordPerfect was a solid reason for abandoning it.
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