Anonymous
The sole question “Why Linux Desktop ‘Failed'” is completely senseless and meaningless.
Everybody I know of is failing to answer that because of ‘nobody got the point’.
(If they would have ‘gotten the point’, they wouldn’t ask that question.)
The reasons “Why Linux Desktop ‘Failed'” are much simpler.
1. Average user DOES NOT CARE for O/S (but, it simply wants to search the web, write a document, create the image … whichever TASK)
2. 99,5+ % of computers come pre-installed (usually Windows, rarely Mac — why SOMEBODY WHO DOES NOT CARE should change the O/S?)
3. If you try to recommend Linux to SOMEBODY WHO DOES NOT CARE, you’re doomed to fail because:
3.1 The average user DOES NOT CARE!
3.2 Why it should change something that came pre-installed and it ‘just works’ if it simply DOES NOT CARE?
3.3 There’s one moment in which the user that DOES NOT CARE starts taking care — at the moment when something doesn’t work (and it needs help).
At that very moment (and only temporary), the one who DOES NOT CARE will first try to get help from another user, which will be using something that came pre-installed …
The one who DOES NOT CARE, simply DOES NOT CARE and if, it has the BIG ADVANTAGE IF NOT USING LINUX.
–> “Linux Desktop ‘Failed'” because the average user DOES NOT CARE. So simple.
* The ones who care are the wast minority … ‘freaks’ … we here …