KohlyKohl said:
Linux is not too complicated. This is just regurgitated Microsoft Fud that has spread over the internet for years now as a hold over from the late 90's when it was not the most user friendly of Operating Systems. Linux usually does not come pre-installed, so of course one must install it themselves. Every tried to install Windows? Personally I have installed Linux on to PC's of people who could barely turn their computers on. They have no problems using Linux once it set up for them.
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I know... like I said, I use it. It's not too complicated for me either, BUT it is too complicated for the average person. You know the kind I mean, the half of the world that can't even figure out how to get an MP3 from their PC to their iPod.
Trust me, I've heard the Linux mantra a hundred times, and people still don't use it. Why? Because THEY say it's too complicated for them, or that they can't find drivers for their hardware. It took me countless hours to find drivers for only about 80% of my hardware years ago when I first setup Redhat on my desktop... and I actually know what I'm doing. But then again, I got my first PC in the early 80s.
A lot of people today are just now getting into computers in general, and really need their hand held on everything from defraging their HDD to sweeping their PC of spyware.
I think the first step to beating MS at their own game doesn't start at the OS level... it starts at the roots. Continue to degrade the IE market share, and then someone needs to make/market an office suite that is better than and more stable than MS Office. Preferably a real company needs to do this, and not an open source group of kids. To beat MS, it takes more than brains, it takes money marketing power. That's why I said MAC OS is as close as it will come... Apple has money, but their range of computers is just too expensive. If Apple were smart, they'd find a way to make MAC OS work on a PC and then market it... I guarantee that overnight, MS would lose 20% of it's marketshare in the PC marketplace.
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