On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:

To be honest, I wish there was an equivalent to the Android OS in the Desktop OS space. You need to have the cash to scale out. Linux is currently like Open Moko. A lot of innovation and potential that never comes through... Perhaps Google should have invested heavily in Ubuntu as an OS and customizing it, arranging OEM agreements etc.

Equating the state of linux on the desktop to OpenMoko is not a realistic argument. I think it depends a lot on what your "expectation" is out of a desktop. My father for example (who is 70+) has been running ubuntu on his old laptop for that last couple of years. He is not a "power" user by any measure, remember he is 70+ - email , wordprocessing, internet thats about it. In the 2 years he has also upgraded the OS himself once. Does he want fancy desktop animations ? Does he want full screen mode ? -- no. There is a large majority of users who just want to get things done, and a good linux desktop works just fine for them.