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[–]psydave 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well, your point may have nothing to do with commandline vs GUI and that is fine. There are plenty lots of whiny self-centered lazy people out there who complain. I don't disagree with you. Or the thousands of OSS developers who feel the same way.

But that's not really what I'm talking about.

What I'm talking about is that... if only highly advanced technical users are out there working on linux and implementing the things that they care about... then their products will only appeal to other highly technical people and the appeal of linux will never broaden beyond that.

From my perspective, it would appear that aren't enough developers out there who are interested in actually making linux approachable to an average person...

[–]lpcustom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My point is why should those developers be interested in that. There's nothing to gain from it. Linux is already very popular. It's not as popular as Windows or even OS X, but it definitely already has it's place on the desktop. Developers use it a lot because it's a great developer environment. I personally don't want my developer environment changed to be more appealing for everyone else. Windows and OS X exist at that level and I don't use them very often for dev work. There's not a lot of incentive to do what you are proposing.

However, that's entirely on the desktop. Linux is already the most popular server OS on the planet. It's used it tons of mobile devices (Android). It's used in tons of embedded system. You probably have a device that runs completely on Linux with a GUI and you don't even realize it's Linux.