| ▲ | pengwinhayden 9 hours ago | |
Some of us are old enough to remember Corel Linux. It was about as mainstream as Linux could have gotten. It shipped with WordPerfect Office, which was still neck and neck with Microsoft Office at the time, including WordPerfect, Quattro, Corel Presentations, Corel Draw, all there. It had migration tools to move Internet Explorer, Netscape, Outlook, mIRC, and ICQ settings, and Windows registry settings to Corel Linux. It shipped with a Wine-based Windows application compatibility layer out of the box. It lasted less than a year. | ||
| ▲ | dsr_ 9 hours ago | parent [-] | |
When your unique selling proposition is that you are just like Windows, but cheaper, you end up with a lot of customers who are expecting 100% Windows behavior. For desktop Linux to be successful, it needs to be the cool different OS -- not the boring Windows that the accountants use, and not the MacOS that the art snobs and marketing hipsters use, but something appealing on its own merits. And, arguably, that's about where it is now: 70% boring, 15% commercial hipster, 15% indie. | ||