Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 30th Jun 2009 16:48 UTC
While traversing about the web this afternoon, I came across a rather funny subject title for a forum post. The person asked if any "normal" people use Linux, but went on to ask forgiveness for the lack of a better word than "normal." He wonders if anyone who isn't an open source, uber-geeky, stay-up-until-dawn-exploring-code fanatic actually uses Linux. Though the congregation here at OSNews is (obviously) comprised of very many of the aforementioned fanatics (in a sense; wear the title with pride), I also believe there to be many readers who are more or less "normal," for the lack of a better word, and plenty who may fall in between both spectrums of nerdiness.
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My father uses Fedora and he never really learn "how to use" Windows when that was his platform. There were problems in the beginning but I solved those for him (ex.: lack of media codecs, DVD playback, Flash).
Applications aren't a problem at all. When he needs Windows software, he'll use Wine for software rated Silver or better on Wine's AppDB. For software rated Bronze or Garbage, he connects to my Vista terminal server (with patched termserv.dll for simultaneous connections) as a seamless remote session, using a specially patched version of the rdesktop RDP client.
Linux is a great platform as long as you're conscience of the hardware you buy. Unlike Windows, the level of support for specific hardware varies from poor to excellent. Not all drivers in the kernel are at the same level of maturity. Linux can become a nightmare with cryptic, non-graphical error messages when dealing with poorly supported devices or when you run across distribution and packaging bugs, which is more frequent then it should me.