Here is the real facts.
Windows is the best supported and used OS due to great marketing by MS
and runs the most software and in the past has been the best priced.
Now Windows is over priced. Plus Windows (due to MS tactics) had no
competition. But it was not a real good OS, being bloated and poorly
written but did have a lot of eye candy. It is also very insecure and
using it safely you need to support the likes of Symantec who is really
not customer friendly and does cause Windows to run worse than it
normally would.
Then there is Apple who had very over priced hardware and was much
slower with far fewer software titles. Now even though it is still
proprietary they have a good hardware platform and a good OS and they do
network with the rest of the computing industry easier. But it still
costs more and still has fewer software titles but is well supported.
Apple makes the best laptop for those who are willing to pay the price.
Then there is Linux. It is a real OS and reasonably secure. The fact
there are many distros is not as much of a problem nor are the many
GUIs. There does need to be standards that the distros adhere to as far
as installation, setup and configuration of software and hardware. That
is one of the main problems.
The other is printing. There is no standardization for Linux and all of
the software applications to support standard dialog and methodologies
for printing.
Then there is the issue of Linux getting enough market share so the
camera, scanner, printer and other hardware companies support it with
software and drivers to the extent they do with Mac and Windows.
When that happens you will see Linux take off.
What may be surprising is that for future versions of Windows to survive
they will need a major rewrite leaving behind all of the legacy
baggage. You may find that Windows will turn into a powerful GUI and
sit on top of a Microsoft modified Linux kernel. Then all of the Linux
bashers like LOL! will have to hold their nose while the click the Start
button.
Frank wrote:
> Alias wrote:
>
>> Moshe. Goldfarb wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.applematters.com/article/about-linux-and-why-nobody-seems-to-care1/
>>>
>>>
>>> " The general consensus seems to be that Mac users are the sort who
>>> want
>>> the best in quality, no expenses spared Windows users are those who're
>>> looking for the best bang for their buck (generally in the short
>>> term) and
>>> Linux users are the ones who want everything for free, particularly
>>> software."
>>>
>>> " Some Linux users are easily dazzled by superfluous and completely
>>> useless
>>> effects (wobbly windows, blatant overuse of transparency, etc.) and
>>> assume
>>> that it must be better than Mac OS X because it's so cosmetically
>>> made-up
>>> and then there are others who only need the Terminal and can keep
>>> typing on
>>> it whole day long."
>>>
>>> " The problem with the Linux community is that, like any community,
>>> it has
>>> members with widely varying interests and preferences and the open
>>> source
>>> developers are developing hundreds of distributions to try and cater to
>>> every single whim and fancy of these members. The result is a
>>> cornucopia of
>>> free software, software that has been developed at the expense of
>>> the hard
>>> work and time of some of the most skilled developers on the planet,
>>> and yet
>>> does not have a single product that is complete in and of itself and is
>>> generating any profit at all."
>>>
>>> " There is no way whatsoever that thousands of developers sitting in
>>> front
>>> of their computers in different corners of the world and spending only
>>> their non-working hours trying to develop something that they know
>>> isn't
>>> going to make them any money, are ever going to come up with
>>> anything good
>>> enough to seriously challenge software from companies like Microsoft
>>> and
>>> Apple. There is just no chance at all."
>>>
>>> " Linux has been around for more than a decade now and it's nowhere
>>> near
>>> challenging either Mac OS X or Windows. The vast majority of
>>> hardware and
>>> software makers around the world are still shipping products that are
>>> incompatible with Linux."
>>>
>>> " There's no guarantee that the camera you bought today and is
>>> compatible
>>> with your Ubuntu installation will work with Fedora Core too should you
>>> change your mind in a few days, as is a common practice among the Linux
>>> enthusiasts."
>>>
>>> " All of this and more are reasons enough to ignore Linux. Linux
>>> users are
>>> never quite sure which one is the best distribution around. They have
>>> debates in their own community with twenty different users vouching for
>>> twenty different variations. They constantly have to keep figuring out
>>> workarounds to make all their software and hardware work together. They
>>> can't just go out and buy a new accessory, assured in the knowledge
>>> that it
>>> will work. They are afraid to upgrade, lest things go wrong."
>>>
>>> And so forth......
>>>
>>> Obviously this guy has had experience with LinSUX because his
>>> article is
>>> right on the money....
>>>
>>
>> Why are you so afraid of Linux, Moshe?
>>
>> Alias
>
> Why are you so afraid of the truth, alias?
> Frank
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