Words Of Wisdom said:
Various distros work extremely well in a server environments and there are a lot of great open source programs to support this use. At the same time it's free which means corporations can use it on a wide scale without harsh licensing fees and individuals can play with it all they want. It used to be just a nerd thing, but the major players in the linux world (SuSE, Redhat, 'buntu boys, etc) are taking great strides to make the distros more user-friendly and hopefully get to the point where they can compete on the same level as Microsoft Windows. They're not there yet, but they're improving and it's pretty amazing to see just how far they've come. Beware linux zealots though. They're even more rabid than mac zealots. |
Actually, from what I've seen of Vista and Seven, it's Windows that tries to compete with linux.
My ubuntu is much much more polished, usable, and useful than Vista. I won't comment on Seven, because it's not even really out.
But when Seven will be out, Linux distros will have improved so much that it will look already deprecated.
I've been a linux user for 10 years now, I'd say it's been 2 years now that I found linux as a desktop more usable and polished than Windows.
I've always considered OSX to be better on this. But lately, I think they are on par.
Anyway, I'm a nerd, I need control over my system, and that's what Linux allows me, and that's why I choose it over any other option.
But 99% of the time, I'm an average user, browsing the web and IM while watching movies or listening to music, triaging photos. And for these simple things, Linux is now just much better, more consistent, easier.
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