| greenmedic88 said: Of course there are people using Linux. The question is what are they using Linux for? As an end content consumer OS, it's usefulness is still limited relative to Windows or OSX, but it's things like Steam support that can slowly change this. As for gaming, the Steam content delivery service doesn't = instant availability of all your Windows games on Linux. It's still up to software publishers to add Linux support in addition to ATI and Nvidia to adding regular GPU driver updates. |
I almost always use Kubuntu to browse the web and for every serious task. In the past I used Windows for games and to scan images, as my old parallel scanner had only Windows drivers, but now I use it only for games as my current USB scanner has drivers and utilities far better on Linux than on Windows.
Edit: In the past I used SuSE, Mandrake (yuck), Debian, Knoppix and Mepis (as recovery disc, also for Windows), I started using Kubuntu since 6.06, but IMVHO its overall HW and SW support really started to improve at an impressive rate since 7.04 - 7.10, 8.04 64bit required some manual tinkering and 9.04, like one of the 7.x was for 32bit, was the first 64bit that automagically installed on my HW without need for manual adjustments to work properly also on my notebook, I just chose manually extra or replacement SW that I preferred to the ones in the standard installation.
The only HW that still requires the manual installation of the firmware is the scanner, but it requires manual operations of the same complexity on Windows too (on Windows, running a setup, on Linux copying a file), and as I wrote, after that the end result is far better on Linux.
And to improve Linux useer-friendliness, my printer works as soon as it's plugged on Linux, while it requires to install drivers on Windows.
Before 9.04 some printer maintenance utilities required root privileges, now not anymore.
