Why is Linux desktop not popular among non-programmers?

[Amit]

>
> Also see articles like "Microsoft Antitrust: “The Linux Threat on the
> Desktop” (2006) and Predatory Response,"
> <https://techrights.org/o/2009/01/22/microsoft-taskforce-vs-walmart-linux/
> >.
>

Someone should convince the Linux foundation to sell linux desktops online.

The Linux foundation should also take libreoffice and other important open
source linux software under its fold.

Basically, the Linux foundation should take the whole linux ecosystem under
its fold.

One flaw that I found in linux desktops development is that the developers
don't ask the companies as to what the companies need.

I think that Google uses linux desktops a lot.

And, there are many companies/departments in companies that work
exclusively in linux but their desktops are still Windows.

If linux desktop developers ask the companies as to what the companies want
to start using linux desktop and then deliver that then the companies will
start using linux desktops. And, linux desktops may get funding from them
also.

The starting point may be Google. If linux desktop developers ask Google as
to what more it wants from linux desktop and if those things are delivered
then may be Google will give more funding.

This is the flaw that I have observed - linux desktop developers don't ask
companies what the companies want, the developers just go ahead and do what
they want to do assuming that the companies will like what they do. But
this is not the way to increase the usage of your product.

I had sent a similar email to some GNOME folks yesterday but I haven't
received a reply.

I have also joined Linux foundation and I will try to convince them.

But what is discouraging is that linux desktop developers themselves are
not very interested in increasing the user base of linux desktops. And if
someone tells them that they are doing something wrong then they get hurt.

I can change the whole scenario and make linux desktops popular and defeat
Microsoft but I can't do it because I am not an important person in the
linux world.

Regards,
Amit
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