Warp wrote:

>> Right. And the fact that the design of Unix is overly complex and 
>> incorporates several decades of backwards compatibility is unrelated? ;-)
> 
>   It's not like Windows is any better in that regard.

I'm not going to disagree with you on that.

[At least Unix is mostly documented...]

>   At least Apple dares to break backwards compatibility with ancient
> software and architectures. It hasn't slowed them down much.

Don't have any experiene in that direction, but I've heard good things.

>   Unix was never designed for people who don't know nor want to know
> anything about computers. It was designed for sysadmins and the like.

Again, we are in agreement.

I think it's not so much a case of "Linux isn't ready for the desktop", 
but rather "Linux is misplaced on the desktop". But I don't see anybody 
developing anything else currently...

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