Floid wrote:
Hammer wrote:
PS; I don't consider Linux (at this time) as a “consumer desktop OS” since one has to build/compile source codes not just consume (i.e. "obtain and play" mentality).
I hate to get pedantic, but can I ask that you recognize that you're recoiling at the idea of managing/configuring the build process yourself?
I do enough of that at work and my home Linux box. One has recognized that not everyone has the mindset and time to build their own binaries (from source code). This topic is outside the Harald Frank/AROS issue.
This is why Tao’s VP and MS's dotNET has the opportunity to fix, solve and make things easier.
An effective invention comes into play when it makes things easier and makes use the limit time we have.
Compiling source *can* easily be as 'obtain and play' as installing binaries; similarly, there are many Linux distros that can happily run from binary packages.
What would be the conditions for that to happen?
Are you suggesting we go back to command line interface? (Where’s the progress in that?)
putting files in the wrong directories, or looking for the wrong versions of libraries-
I rarely put files into the wrong directory (in regards to the AmigaOS). Anyway, we still have WIMP based Directory Opus 5 for this. A larger magnitude of problems will consume similar portion of time.
These are some of the reasons why the Windows/X86 platform has a massive boat anchor (for home and office desktops).
Linux ecosystem may find itself backwards against the incoming transparent re-compiling ecosystems.
The AmigaOS is a consumer desktop OS, i.e. a 'brain dead' user should be able play games (plug and play), manage their files, word process, paint, draw, encode, decode, send email, surf the net, insert plug and play cards (retail), install software via a common install shield/script, install drivers (without Linux style manual recompile) and ‘etc’.
Its just step up from mainstream “Playstation/GameCube/X-Box generation” users. Ask your self this question i.e. what was the original goals of the Amiga500/1200** in regards to it’s general usage?
**the last formula that worked with the Amiga.
PS; I do realize that AROS maybe the means towards this end (i.e. an open source *migaOS). That’s why I stated AROS is nice. It’s has potential.