Linked by Robert Trembath on Sat 30th Aug 2003 11:41 UTC
As a system administrator, I have used Windows on the desktop since 2.0 and used to run Windows XP at home for my family. I use Linux and Windows servers at work and prefer (Red Hat) Linux for its security, stability and usefulness in a company with a diminishing IT budget. More than a year ago I started experimenting with Linux as a desktop solution and after installing and using more than 7 different distros along with many various versions of those distros, I found a distro that is doing everything its suppose to do, right out of the box. I'm talking about the pleasantly suprising Lindows 4.0.
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Interesting to see the comments from Kevin about some places he found that sold PCs without XP pre-installed - I can assure that these are few and far between unless you go for unknown brands.
A few years back, Microsoft launched a campaign to stop "naked PCs" being sold to the public - i.e. PCs with no operating systems on them. According to MS, the only thing you can do with a PC with no OS on it is to install a pirated copy of Windows on it !
You just try to buy an Intel-compatible desktop PC or - even worse - a laptop from a major brand name either without an operating system pre-installed or with a non-MS OS pre-installed in it and you'll have a heck of job doing so. I think this is what is holding back Linux the most on the desktop and it's certainly what hurts Lindows the most.
The situation with laptop vendors and pre-installing Windows is still hugely desperate - I had to tell the Webmaster of http://www.tuxmobil.org/reseller.html to pull the only UK reseller listed there (they'd dumped Linux and gone back to Windows-only on laptops).