Sunday, September 19, 2010

Linux deserves more?

  Okay we have all heard that the Linux has a lot of cool features but still the Linux distributions have a small share in the OS market. Why is it so?
   The main reason is the marketing skills of Microsoft. Microsoft through it's great marketing skills has reduced the share of all other OSs to a minimal amount. Apple has retained the share of Mac OS through its high class products. On the other end we rarely see anyone marketing Sabaoyon or Ubuntu.
    Also, same is the case for the famous computer games. A few games have now come on the MAC OS but has anyone played Halo in Ubuntu! ? We only get to play the games developed by the OS development team,  which are no ways as glamorous as the games designed for Windows. This leaves out all the potential and hard-core gamers from the Linux users community.
    Coming to the user experience factor, though we can make many configurations in Linux, many of them are useless for the average users.As a result they underachieve.Also  the user interface of the Linux distributions is of lower grade(considering the beauty) compared to Windows counterparts of the same time period. Linux allows us to customize as much as possible but the fact is that we are now so lazy that we dont even bother to look into all those features. Again, Linux is underutilized.
    One of the reasons that Linux users community is limited to developers and geeks is the confusion " which distro is good for me?". All Linux distros have some or other good and bad points. I personally find Sabayon to be the best as it has a beautiful interface plus the only Linux distro which has the most entertaining game of all. Also it has many more interesting features. It does at the cost of storage space(Sabayon 5: 4.38 GB  when installed on my virtual machine).
  In the end I can say that Linux is an under-utilized OS and should be certainly tried out,if not installed then at least on a virtual machine. If u get any interest, here are some links for downloading some Linux distros:

UBUNTU
SABAYON






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