China has ordered central government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-branded personal computers with domestic alternatives within two years, marking one of Beijing’s most aggressive efforts so far to eradicate key overseas technology from within its most sensitive organs.
The Linux ecosystem highlights both the strength and the weakness of F/OSS in one fell swoop.
The strength is that, via its flexibility, it has enabled the creation of a myriad of very specific distributions that scratch very specific itches all the way from mobile on Android to build-your-own-server-OSes to desktop machines to …
The weakness is that it has a myriad of distributions that ensure no two distributions work quite the same way in ways that confuse and frustrate end-users who have no desire to learn what’s going on under the hood of their machines to edit the church newsletter.
Pretty much, Linux is very fragmented and that makes it difficult to create a polished experience on top of it.