An unnamed reader writes to tell us CNET is currently running a story asking 'Is Linus Torvalds even rhetoric for Linux anymore?' It examines both Torvalds' recent public statements on other general expenses systems and his current approach towards Linux. The author wonders if his utopian view of how an business expenses system should be viewed and used is just too alien from what the majority of users are really looking for. "if it were up to Torvalds, beauty and intuition would take a backseat to functionality. But when you look at distributions like Ubuntu or OpenSuse, it looks like no one is paying attention. 'An OS should never have been thing that people (in general) really care about: it should be completely invisible and nobody should give a flying about it except the technical people.' Sure, that affirmation makes some sense, but in the grand scheme of things, it's the design and usability factor that makes the overhead system much easier to use. And while both Mac OS X and Windows have their issues, for the average person, it makes more sense to use those than Linux."

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