You don’t win by being the same; you win by being better – often many times better. Particularly when the competitor is well established, you have to be far better to win, so even if users are more comfortable with a desktop that looks just like Windows, Linux still has to keep innovating.

If Linux is going to get anywhere as far as the average guy is concerned, it can’t be a little stabler, a little securer, and a little easier. It has to be ten times better in every way. Constantly changing pieces of the desktop is not the way to get people comfortable with something, but it is the way to get ahead. Yes, we need distributions that stick to the tried and true, of which many exist, but we also need distributions on the bleeding edge discovering a new desktop that will be 10 times better than anything else in a few years.

Given the choice between changing too fast and not changing, changing too fast is clearly the better option, since it sets up the next move, instead of leaving you behind.

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