The Year of Linux on the Desktop - Part 3: It just (doesn't) work

Nobody buys a computer; they buy into an ecosystem. This has been true for (basically) forever. A computer has only ever been as useful as the software you could run on it, and as only a small fraction of the people who have ever owned computers can program them, this mostly means the software you can buy (or otherwise obtain) for it. 1 Computer ecosystems have always evolved. Defender of the…