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Originally Posted by Gareth
I do see your point, Gav... and I think you've probably got a point that sometimes it is unnecessarily complicated. There is room for improvement, I'll admit that.
I think the way Apple have addressed the user-friendliness of OS X is a good example to be followed. I know it's not strictly based on Linux but Free-BSD is close enough to Linux for me  People talk about how easy it is to install software on a Mac, and how simple they are to use... if it can be done with OS X then surely it should be possible under Linux too. |
OSX is a good solution, and entirely possible under Linux... If didn't contradict the most basic principal of linux and unix. That's modularity and variety. OSX is a singlular solution, but the reason why so many distros exist with different kernels even, is because Linux wasn't supposed to be singular solution. Which is good in that you get a lot of choice... But bad in that it lacks consistency. Like the packaging managers for example. You get RedHat's RPM, Debian's DEB.
Distro creators really need to start working together and coming up with some common (not singular) solutions to the problems.