This way Linux, BSD, opensolaris, Haiku could progress. As the vendors introduced more capabilities the standard version number should increase.
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A generic sound/gfx/… driver and stack that would conform to a standard. GFX, Sound, printers, scanners, cameras should have well defined cross-OS standardized interfaces. But there is a vast amount of devices with different APIs that absorb developers ‘ creativity. The problem with linux is not a unique problem. Accept the truth now instead of waiting forever. Aside from that, it’s a lost cause on the desktop. If you are making a highly customized embedded OS, Linux is a great foundation. If you are doing OS research, Linux is fine. If you are running servers, Linux is great. If you are a computer enthusiast or freetard, Linux is great. It fills no niche, it doesn’t really do anything better for the end user that the other systems don’t already do, and in many cases, it’s actually a worse experience. When you can buy a Windows PC that just works and runs your software, or a Mac that just works and runs your software and looks nice, or get a smartphone that runs a customized Linux or Windows or Mac environment, there’s really no room for Linux as a desktop OS. Linux has had almost two decades to get its act together it has failed to do so.
If Linux really were the next big thing and there were money to be made in releasing apps for Linux, it would have happened by now. Writing apps for Windows is considerably easier, considerably more documented and the wealth of APIs and frameworks dwarfs whatever Linux has (especially because some of the few good Linux libraries are also available on Windows). It looks like ass by default, and even with some tweaking. Meanwhile, in Linux land, there still is poor graphics driver support. I know in the past that wasn’t always true, but it certainly has been for a while now. Windows is also winning because it actually works for most people, it actually has good APIs and it’s actually stable. Windows isn’t still winning because people are lazy.
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