Will it offer backwards compatibility for a reasonable time (say 7 years)? Or it will jeopardise my investments in proprietary software and my investments in hardware with proprietary drivers every time a new stable version/LTS comes out?
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Originally posted by blackout23 View PostYou can be pretty sure that it's going to be a flexible funding campaign. Even if they only manage to get 5K which isn't enough to do anything meaningful it will buy them a nice PC at least.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostWhile I personally find Arch overall more user friendly in a maintenance perspective than most distros, I'd say it's harder than average as a whole. Regardless, these people have seriously unrealistic goals who have been using linux too long to not understand the stupidity of the average user.
That may be true, but to be fair, they made a lot of moves that people weren't happy with. Canonical acted like they were the authority over the linux community and they did things that hardware vendors find difficult to work with. Their end products are, from what I hear, pretty good for newcomers (who at least give it a shot). But, people hate change - if Canonical really wants to attract new users, they're either going to have to have an experience that closely resembles Windows or they're going to have to run ANY Windows program they want, both of which are incredibly stupid things but that's how you attract the herd. But, the problem is if something LOOKS like windows but doesn't run Windows programs, that changes people's expectations and therefore causes disappointment. This is why Windows RT failed - it looked like Windows, it was called Windows, but it couldn't run x86 programs. So in this perspective, an unfamiliar interface is the best thing to do. It's just a matter of how you prioritize familiarity.
As for newcomers, it's time for us Linux enthusiasts to promote Ubuntu that's aiming for the mainstream audience as much as we can. "It's a brand new experience, their Unity interface is amazingly good. I can't get enough of it."
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Originally posted by chrisb View PostOP was right. People want Macs, not OS X. If Apple shipped a themed version of Windows, instead of OSX, people would still buy Macbooks.
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