Linked by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda on Fri 25th Jul 2003 19:42 UTC
To me, it's a miracle how every tiny article on OSNews.com, or any other tech-site, ends up in people shouting all sorts of nonsense at each other like "Linux is gonna bring back Elvis", "Windows shot president Kennedy", "Linux kept the cold war cold" or "Bill Gates wants to buy the moon and charge people for looking at it". Do these people really know what they are saying, or are they just going with the Open-Source flow? Update: Rebuttal article here.
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I am a Mac OS X and windows developer. I have installed Red Hat and FreeBSD for testing, but do not target them because of the small market. I hate windows. Apple proved that Unix can be made usable by the average user. I guess that is what Lindows is supposed to be, but it tries too hard to be like the Windows I hate. But it will be a Lindows type distribution that brings more of the Masses to Linux. As a programmer I prefer my Linux Machine over my windows one. But if I was to recommend an OS to a friend, it would be OS X or Windows not Linux. Linux/FreeBSD is just to complicated for the average user.
Most of my friends are techincally advanced, yet nearly all abandoned Linux very soon after installing it. Not because it was malfunctioning, just that it was not worth their effort. I do not know of anyone who uses it as a primary desktop system.
I disagree with the author about windows not being hell however. I view it as nearly as bad as Linux for management (but not for installing programs and running them) most useres end up replacing their Windows system every couple of years because the prices have gotten low enough that when the instabiltity gets critical thay just dispose of them and "upgrade." Linux may confuse them, but when the computer is under $500, why not replace it when you have problems. If Mac and Linux users took that approach, they would each have 20% Market share.