And the graph says it all. Linux is too geeky. As a system admin, I dealt with Linux, Solaris, and at one point Ultrix, and even Sun OS the predecessor to Solaris on a very old cluster of Sun Workstations. The problem with the OS is depending upon the flavor, the commands are kinda the same, but different. This was at the computer room level in a corporate environment and very confusing going from one flavor of 'Nix to another.
The biggest issue I had was adding software as the command line for each of these flavors of a similar OS. On the Solaris machine I had to download the program, run gzip to extract the archive, then untar the tar ball archive to get the package. Now to install it depends upon how the package came down. If the provider was nice, they put the caboodle in a package, otherwise, I had to create the install and binaries using make first. This was then followed by dot-script to initiate the install.
Now let's hand this over to Mr. Retiree who has a Linux machine. I can't see him going through this effort to install a program. Sure there are probably less archaic ways of installing, perhaps even a GUI package installer to help. Now, there's a problem... Which version, flavor, or package installer is needed?
So I hate to say it... This is just not going to happen at the consumer level.
John
The biggest issue I had was adding software as the command line for each of these flavors of a similar OS. On the Solaris machine I had to download the program, run gzip to extract the archive, then untar the tar ball archive to get the package. Now to install it depends upon how the package came down. If the provider was nice, they put the caboodle in a package, otherwise, I had to create the install and binaries using make first. This was then followed by dot-script to initiate the install.
Now let's hand this over to Mr. Retiree who has a Linux machine. I can't see him going through this effort to install a program. Sure there are probably less archaic ways of installing, perhaps even a GUI package installer to help. Now, there's a problem... Which version, flavor, or package installer is needed?
So I hate to say it... This is just not going to happen at the consumer level.
John