Why is the path to Linux so hard?

Article Title: Why is the path to Linux so hard ?. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

In this article, the so-called "path to Linux" refers to the path to a perfect Linux desktop. When talking about Linux desktops, some people sneer at it. What is the actual situation?

In November 29, Mint 8 (a perfect Linux desktop) was officially released, with little response in China. China's Linux development is outdated, and the concept of Linux in China is strange. How many bugs do I know in Ubuntu (bugs) in November 18? In this article, there are 9.10 so-called "open bugs" ("unsolved bugs") in Ubuntu 74,905 desktop versions, of which 31 are critical bugs. In December 1, this number increased to 76,161, with 34 critical bugs and an average of 100 new bugs caught every day. During this period, the number of Ubuntu International community (forum) activists increased to December 1 in 79,204 (November 18 in 78,344), with an average of nearly 100 activists per day. As a result, we can hardly imagine how fierce and spectacular the fight between people and bugs (program bugs) on the road to a perfect Linux desktop is like an ant war!

As you know, Mint desktop is a more perfect Linux desktop based on the Ubuntu release. Mr. Clement Lefebvre, founder of Mint desktop, attaches great importance to user feedback and understands the actual needs of users. he knows what features users need most. Mint 8 (based on Ubuntu 9.10) has corrected many program bugs and integrated the features urgently needed by many users, striving to keep improving, perfect (in a relative sense ). We can say that in the current situation, Mint 8 desktop is the most perfect Linux desktop in the world. Recently, Mint 8 ranked first in DistroWatch's global rankings.

In October December 3, Ubuntu 10.04 desktop version (Alpha 1) will be released. This new desktop version is called "LTS" ("with long-term support"), and its goal is "bug-free" ("No program bug "). What an ambitious ambition and great rhetoric are there! In fact, the complexity of Linux desktop is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. There are more than 0.1 billion lines of program source code on the Linux desktop, so no error is allowed. how can this problem be solved? How difficult is the human path to a perfect Linux desktop! How spectacular!

In China, I learned that one person wants to bring the perfect Linux desktop experience to Chinese people. This person is almost desperate to study Live technology day and night. he has almost no idea how to make Live self-starting USB flash drives. However, he still does not meet his current situation or technical level. He vowed to make a first-class Live USB Drive (self-starting USB flash Drive) to Chinese people. At noon yesterday, during our call, we learned that he was working on the Mint 8 Chinese Desktop (placed in a USB flash drive) and will announce it soon. Here, by the way, the Mint 8 release only has the Live version and does not have to be installed on the hard disk. Now, we suddenly realized that the perfect Linux desktop that we were pursuing was in a tiny USB flash drive. More than 0.1 billion lines of source code, a line of error is not allowed. Compile an elf and put it into the USB flash drive. This is the full truth of the story!

Note: Recently, there are some Linux texts in China, which are not mentioned at all.