by acewiza » 2018-02-04 14:49
Linux and the Linux community (My version of the loosely defined "we") vis-a-vi Windows and Microsoft is not a good bunch of related stuff to compare, IMHO. HOS's linked Linux problem article is an interesting exercise in outlining the issues, but not really relevant when the user bases are actually multiple different groups of people. There are basically 4 divisions, with crossover in the boundaries: home, office, low level and high level users. I've been out of the workplace for a couple of years now, but IIRC, the high-level home users are probably the biggest singularly identifiable bunch of Linux users. They are scattered amongst everyone else, typically with membership in more than one group if they work anywhere in commercial industry.
I think Wheeler has a good point, based on market and industry trends. Unfortunately, M$, Google, Apple et al have the IT space so well dumbed-down now there no longer exists (from a desktop perspective - whoever THEY are) much interest in graduating to high-level computing - you know the type where people can read code and understand how electrons get from one place to another. The last 30 years was a different environment where learning how the computing actually worked and engineering it were more important issues for more people as the industry developed. I sometimes wonder where the next generation of IT administrators and systems engineers are going to come from.
Personally, I am not experiencing problems related to any of the issues on the Linux problem list. But 99.99999999% of computer users are not like me.
Nobody would ever ask questions If everyone possessed encyclopedic knowledge of the man pages.