Does Ubuntu can rivalize with window in the near futur ?

[ChichiriMuyo]

Soleron said:
Ubuntu is a viable replacement for over 50% of the PC market, which is the internet-and-office-only group that requires only an MS-Office-clone and a good web browser, as well as protection from viruses. Linux offers all of this, today, for free, on very old hardware at reasonable speed.

However these people are the least likely to switch. Those most likely to are the informed and computer-literate, which usually include gamers (which Linux can't do no matter how good because developers refuse to port games*) and professionals (who use Adobe tools that again no one is willing to port but can't be replaced on Linux due to patent threats over the file formats and interfaces.

*Look at UT3 - promised for Linux, the code works, the market exists, but no release due to (as far as I can tell from frequent Phoronix reports) general Linux apathy over at Epic.

 

Uh, sure.  If you say so.  Except, you know, things like WINE exist, not to mention virtual machines. You might not get the latest and the greatest, but then it's still only a matter of time before that changes.  With the economy as it is, if it doesn't recover soon, we're going to be seeing a whole hell of a lot of people trying to cut their costs.