I had lunch with my wonderful grandma today. Ever since my parents moved to Argentina for their three-year stint, she's been a little lonely (though she won't admit it). My wife is camping with her sisters and our kids, so I'm lonely, too. So we went out for lunch.
We talked a little more about how hard computers are to use. Then I came home to this amazingly good interview with Con Kolivas, one of the Linux kernel's rock stars (and a heavy lifter on the Linux desktop work). He calls out precisely the thing that my grandma is troubled by:
If there is any one big problem with kernel development and Linux it is the complete disconnection of the development process from normal users. You know, the ones who constitute 99.9% of the Linux user base.
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