From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1350568304.56828.YahooMailClassic@web184402.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:32:34 -0700 Message-ID: From: Skip Tavakkolian To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop Topicbox-Message-UUID: bfe0a9b2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Erudite Glenda in Winter? On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:17 AM, John Floren wrote: >> Precisely. The correlation between what makes something >> good and what makes something popular is small but negative. >> One of the primary reasons I stopped using Linux was that >> it was becoming too mainstream and just like all the >> commercial junk out there. > > I too find Linux too mainstream: http://i.imgur.com/Wtm16.png > > > john >