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Are you experienced? The other day I wrote The Linux Desktop Mess ~ Linux Advocates and had a few interesting comments. Some of the comments were Pavlovian and entirely missed the point of my story, as if I am disregarding open source choice by suggesting standardization. Quite the opposite. I cherish choice as much as anyone else. The point of the story, missed by some, is that programmers follow standards and protocols all the time, some are elective and some are mandatory.

"Well-documented code and robust testing are key no matter what language is being used, and we have to remember that the more mature programming languages have a wealth of reference material and, thanks to free and open source software, excellent examples of code," said Google+ blogger Brett Legree. "This means that it may be easier for a new user to learn the older languages."

Today something struck home and really punctuates the current state of affairs we now have with Linux Desktops. Insync 1.0 was introduced, which, by itself, is a good thing, particularly because Google chose to pass on writing a Drive client for Linux but provided one for Microsoft Windows and Apple OSX last Spring of 2012. That's to be expected I guess. After all, they represent two very big markets with essentially one codebase for each operating system--fairly simple in view of long-term maintenance. I think that's a safe assumption.